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Paul Storr
‘UK ivory ban
would destroy
my business’
■ Dealer outlines ‘intellectually
feeble reaction to real problem’
Ivan Macquisten
reports
A LEADING dealer in Japanese
works of art says he will go
out of business if sales of
ivory in the UK are banned.
St James’s dealer Max Rutherston
made his fears known ahead of the
General Election, commenting on the
Conservative manifesto pledge to end the
ivory trade.
The other major parties are yet to
declare their position on the issue.
Mr Rutherston – until last year
chairman of the ten-day Asian Art in
London festival – specialises in netsuke,
many of them carved from ivory. Around
half his sales involve ivory.
“The American moratorium has
already made my business difﬁcult in
recent months,” he said. “A UK total ban
on ivory sales would almost certainly
make it unviable.”
Mr Rutherston is calling for politicians
and campaigners to “focus on the true
criminals here, who are the poachers
and those who trade in the fruits of their
cruelty”.
His comments came as it emerged
that the Conservative Party had included
a similar pledge to end the ivory trade
in their 2010 manifesto. However, then
they also promised to destroy existing
stockpiles, making it appear that they
were really concerned with contraband.
The stockpile clause is missing from
the 2015 manifesto and Conservative
Central Ofﬁce’s conﬁrmation to ATG that
they really did mean a total ban, including
antiques, sparked uproar when reported
last week.
Left: the gilt-bronzemounted kakiemon
porcelain and
Egyptian porphyry
brûle parfums sold for
£1.65m at Sotheby’s
in London on April 29.
Sweet scent for best
of 18th century France
BRIEFLY owned by Louis XVI, who
intended them for the Louvre, this
13in (33.5cm) high pair of ﬁne giltbronze-mounted kakiemon porcelain
and Egyptian porphyry brûle parfums
sold for £1.65m at Sotheby’s in
London on April 29.
The pair formed part of a 250-lot
collection of 18th century decorative
arts removed from a town house in
central London.
The Japanese bowls and covers,
one decorated with phoenix, the other
with dragons, were thought to date
to the mid 18th century. They were
united at some point in the 1760s
or ‘70s by Louis-Marie-Augustin,
5th Duc d’Aumont (1709-82). The
phoenix vessel was acquired from Jean
de Jullienne, who had been director
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Loomes: a clockmaker’s tale
:$/.(5*$//(5,(6
TWO lantern clocks engraved with the
signature Thomas Loomes at ye mermayd
in Lothbury appeared at auction within
days of each other in April.
As fewer than 30 timekeepers by the
maker are known, it was a remarkable
coincidence.
Clocks carrying this evocative signature
were made across a relatively short period
(1653-65), but Loomes’ story – ﬁrst
published last year – is an important one.
A lieutenant in the Trained Bands of
the Cromwellian army during the civil
wars, sometime in the 1640s he became
the journeyman of William Selwood, one
of the ﬁrst generation of English clock
makers who worked at the Sign of the
Mermaid in Lothbury.
This City street in the parish of St
Margaret’s, London, was a major centre of
lantern clock making in the half a century
before the Great Fire. On January 14,
1649 (just days before the English would
execute their king), Loomes was made
a Brother of the Clockmakers’ Company
and he assumed control of the business
following the death of his master in 1653.
The following year he married Mary,
daughter of fellow Anabaptist and
clockmaker Ahasuerus Fromanteel – the
two men proving powerful allies in their
regular disputes with a largely Royalist
Clockmakers’ Company.
For a decade Loomes operated a
second ‘City’ branch of his father-inlaw’s empire centred south of the river
in Southwark. When Fromanteel took
out his famous advert for pendulum
clocks in the September 1658 issue of
the Mercurius Politicus (the same journal
reported the magniﬁcent funeral of
Oliver Cromwell), he wrote ‘You may
have them at his house on the Bankside
in Mosses Alley, Southwark, and at the
sign of the Maremaid in Loathbury, near
Bartholomew lane end, London’.
Loomes’ fortunes took a turn for the
worse with the Restoration. There was
widespread distrust of men of his faith.
A marked man, in 1662 he was charged
Left: a lantern clock by Thomas
Loomes sold for £5600 at
Mallams of Oxford on April 22.
Right: a lantern clock by Thomas
Loomes sold for £6200 at Henry
Adams of Chichester on April 16.
Above: a detail of the Chichester
clock showing the signature
Thomas Loomes at ye mermayd
in Lothbury.
with providing a safehouse to ‘the King’s
enemies’ (the bond of £1000 probably
paid by Fromanteel) and sometime in
1664 or 1665 he had died in what remain
mysterious circumstances.
He was perhaps simply among the one
in seven victims of plague but a theory
persists he was murdered by Royalists
in an act of revenge. The following year
the Mermaid workshop, and the entire
Lothbury metalworking district, was razed
on the third day of the Great Fire.
Thomas Loomes made typical mid 17th
century lantern clocks with balance wheel
escapements.
The example offered by Henry Adams
of Chichester, West Sussex, on April 16
was part of a consignment of material
from Norris Castle on the Isle of Wight.
It had not been there all its life (the
castle was designed by 18th century
architect James Wyatt for Lord Henry
Seymour and its original function was
entertaining) but it might have been in attic
storage there for close to two centuries.
It was heavily tarnished but in the sort
of sleepy original condition – untouched
by Victorian restoration – that buyers
of early clocks so admire. Estimated at
just £250-350, it took £6200 (plus 20%
buyer’s premium).
The 16cm (40cm) high clock seen at
Mallams in Oxford was also in generally
good condition. The doors and back plates
were missing and, like all clocks of this
period, it had been converted, early in its
life, to an anchor escapement.
The movement carried a ‘matchstick
man’ casting mark. The identity of this
brass foundry remains unknown, but
castings with this mark are known on
clocks made by a range of London makers
and periods. It is quite possible he too was
from Lothbury, a street that took its name
from the loathsome din echoing from
the workshops of brass founders, copper
smiths and pewterers.
This time the estimate was £25003000 but the winning bid a comparable
£5600 (plus 20% buyer’s premium).
So who now owns these two clocks by
Thomas Loomes?
Both sold to the North Yorkshire
lantern clock specialist Brian Loomes, a
distant relative sharing the same surname,
who has been researching the maker for
close to 50 years. His 12,000 word article
The Private Life of Thomas Loomes can be
read across three recent issues (May-July
2014) of Clocks Magazine.
Awaiting restoration, both clocks will
shortly appear for sale on his website.
■ brianloomes.com
Roland Arkell
brûle parfums
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of the Gobelins tapesty factory. The
celebrated bronzier Pierre Gouthière was
then commissioned to add neoclassical
gilt-bronze mounts to both.
After his death in 1792, the brûle
parfums and other pieces from
d’Aumont’s collection were bought by
the dealer Philippe-François Julliot on
behalf of Louis XVI, with the intention
of installing them in the museum
planned for the Louvre. The king was
executed the following year and by
1795, as revolution raged, the perfume
burners were recorded in the inventory
from the Depot de Nesle – a central
warehouse established and run by the
republican government to reorganise
cultural properties. They passed through
several more hands and later entered the
collection of La Comtesse D’Aubigny,
who sold them at Christie’s London in
July 1976 for £4000.
As proof that the ﬁnery of the ancien
regime still carries clout in the market,
four bidders in the room and on the
phone at Sotheby’s took the price well
above the £150,000-250,000 estimate
before they were eventually hammered
down to a private collector on the phone.
The buyer’s premium was 25/20/12%.
Precious metals
On Friday, May 1, Michael Bloomstein of
Brighton were paying the following for
bulk scrap against a gold ﬁx of $1179.00
(€1049.24, £771.04)
GOLD
22 carat – £682.05 per oz
(£21.93 per gram)
18 carat – £558.04 (£17.94)
15 carat – £465.03 (£14.95)
14 carat – £434.03 (£13.96)
9 carat – £279.02 (£8.97)
HALLMARK PLATINUM
£20.35 per gram
SILVER
£8.70 per oz for 925 standard hallmarked
An exhibition of 126 oil paintings, watercolours and drawings.
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Above: the Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson beat its own record as
the most expensive work to sell at auction by a living designer when it fetched £2.1m (plus
25/20/12% buyer’s premium) at Phillips in London on April 28. The 2ft 10in x 5ft 6in (87cm
x 1.68m) piece was one of 15 handmade by Newson in 1990 from ﬁbreglass and aluminium.
It had a guide of £1.5m-2.5m. It eclipsed the previous high, a premium-inclusive $2.09m
(£1.48m) paid at the same auctioneers in 2010 in New York for a prototype of the design.
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One of the most vocal critics when the
news broke on Twitter a week ago was
silver dealer Michael Baggott, an expert
on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, who
said: “It’s alarming because of what’s
happened in America. People in the trade
have said to me: ‘A ban on ivory means
the destruction of items which only have
ivory as an element in them’. Somebody
will work out that there will be a way
of removing the ivory to make money.
Hundreds of thousands of objects would
be ruined to make a few pounds.”
Mr Baggott believes that much of
the problem has arisen as a result of the
growing wealth in China.
“Ivory has such a cultural signiﬁcance
in China these days and now they have
the money to pay for it. The law won’t
stop the poachers if rich Chinese are still
prepared to pay for it,” he said. “The
bizarre thing is that modern ivory is
already banned. What it needs is on-theground policing to stop the corruption.”
He also believes that people are
backing a campaign that they don’t
understand. “There’s a fundamental lack
of understanding of what antique ivory is.
If you showed a member of the public 500
portrait miniatures and said do you want
these destroyed, they would be aghast.”
It’s a point not lost on portrait miniature
specialist Emma Rutherford, who also went
on Twitter to spread the word.
Rebecca Davies, chief executive of
LAPADA, expressed her association’s
“deep concern” at the manifesto policy.
She said: “Few people realise the
breadth of antique items that are crafted
from or contain ivory. Enacting a blanket
ban will not save the elephants and so
much more would be threatened instead.
“Many dealers have already seen a
major impact on sales to the US market
and this type of legislation would be the
ﬁnal nail in the cofﬁn for many of them
whose expertise is focused on items that
historically contain ivory.”
Mr Rutherston agreed: “The current
turmoil in the United States appears
to stem from an intellectually feeble
reaction to a real problem.
“Responsible supporters of the
continuing trade in antique ivory are
quick to emphasise that they condemn
the poaching of elephants, and I doubt
that they would object to an outright
universal ban on the trade in unworked
or newly worked ivory.”
He said that CITES has proved
an acceptable and effective way of
controlling the legitimate trade and
backed V&A curator Dr Marjorie
Trusted’s view, reported in last
week’s ATG, that it was not difﬁcult
to distinguish between antique and
modern works made from ivory.
“If there is room for doubt about
whether an object was made before
1947, so be it; decline a licence to the
dubious object. In this respect, I think
that the system may in part be selfpolicing,” Mr Rutherston added.
ATG asked the Liberal Democrats and
Labour to give their position on the ivory
as neither included it in their manifesto,
but neither replied before deadline. Nor
did the Scottish National Party when
asked to clarify its position: it mentions
only enforcing the ban on the illegal
trade in ivory.
Nonetheless, Kensington and Chelsea
Conservative candidate Victoria Borwick,
a former fairs director at Olympia and
Deputy Mayor for London, was clear
that she did not back her own party’s
manifesto pledge.
She has written to DEFRA
parliamentary under secretary of state
Lord de Maulay asking for clariﬁcation
and for him to put dealers’ minds at rest.
She has told him that the trade would
support the ban on modern ivory, but not
antiques, and argued that Conservative
policy was to back existing CITES rules.
She also told ATG that if elected on
May 7 she would continue to press the
matter and stand up for the art and
antiques trade regardless of which party
came to power.
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SUN-DIAL, AUGSBURG, DATED 1566
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£60,000 - 90,000
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£150,000 - 200,000
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Oldest criteria hold true
■ Quality and provenance
dictate in strong but selective
antiquities market
Far left: a marble
bust of Emperor
Gaius – £170,000
at Christie’s King
Street on April 15.
Gabriel Berner
reports
Left: c.1st century
torso of Dionysus
– £210,000 at
Bonhams Bond
Street on April 16.
IT was a case of quality rather
than quantity at the London
spring antiquities sales.
Just 312 lots were offered across
Christie’s and Bonhams (25/20/12%
buyer’s premium), the smallest antiquities
series for a long while and a radical
slimming down since 800 lots were the
norm two years ago.
This has largely been the result of
Bonhams’ recent decision to drop their
lower-valued sales held in Knightsbridge
but it also reﬂects the purchasing habits of
buyers who have become more selective
and focused on quality.
Nonetheless, the broad content
remained the same, with a good
representation across all ﬁelds, Egyptian,
Classical and Near Eastern, plus several
specialist areas such as glass and jewellery
alongside a few private collections.
In short, there was still enough to
pull in buyers – academic collectors,
institutions, specialist dealers, one-off
buyers looking for decorative statements
and Modern art collectors on the hunt for
highly stylised works.
Across 48 hours from April 15-16 nearly
three-quarters of material got away to the
tune of £3.92m. The strongest input came
from the UK, Continental Europe, the US
and the Middle East. Offered ﬁrst was
Christie’s slightly larger 166-lot sale which
totalled £2.68m with 75% sold by lot,
while Bonhams’ 146-lot sale a day later
raised up £1.24m, with 65% sold by lot.
Of the lots that sold, many bettered their
estimates. Market freshness, decorative
appeal, quality and the all important
provenance were key factors, in various
combinations, on all the lots that did well.
Specialists left the rostrum in upbeat
mood. “The market is so buoyant and
lively at the moment with a constant
stream of new people coming in” said
Laetitia Delaloye at Christie’s. She noted
high demand for decorative pieces but
also for “archeologically and historically
important works”.
Bonhams’ Madeleine Perridge was
similarly enthused noting “a very buoyant
market,” with “a good mix of buyers
active across the board”. She felt there
had been a noticeable push in prices over
the last few years aided by the sheer
Right: 1st century
marble statue
of Livia Drusilla
– £360,000 at
Christie’s.
CLASSICAL MARBLES
Large marbles are often the crowdpleasers at antiquities sales. Once again
Roman ﬁgure groups provided the top
lots at both auction houses.
Ticking the right boxes at Christie’s
was a larger-than-life 6ft 9in (2.06m)
high marble statue of Livia Drusilla (58
B.C.-29 A.D.), the enigmatic ﬁrst empress
of Rome and wife of Emperor Augustus.
Known as the Stowe House Livia, the 1st
century AD sculpture had a provenance
stretching back to 1774 when George
Grenville acquired it in Italy.
By 1777 it was at Stowe House in
Buckinghamshire. Some 70 years later
in 1848 it was sold by Christie’s in the
mammoth Stowe contents sale. On the
36th day of the auction it sold to an
agent of Lord Lonsdale for £47 5s and
was taken to Lowther Castle in Cumbria.
There it remained until it was acquired by
the vendor at a dispersal in 1957.
Subject matter was also important.
“Depicting the ﬁrst Empress of Rome
makes her a historically important ﬁgure”
said Ms Delaloye. Livia was shown here
as the ideal Roman matron (her public
variety on offer in this collecting ﬁeld:
“There are so many different styles,
periods, cultures and materials – people
can take their pick,” she said.
Both specialists agreed that demand
for antiquities is outstripping supply,
particularly at the top end. At both sales
the contingent of trade buyers proved
particularly active – each armed with
catalogues stuffed with ‘post-it’ notes
marking the lots they hoped to buy.
Again the series did not pass without
controversy. At the eleventh hour
image was closely connected with
marriage, the family and moral values)
and she wears a skilfully rendered stola,
the ﬂoor-length garment reserved for
‘chaste married women’.
Her raised right arm with a scroll in
her hand was one of just a few later
restorations. Bids from two telephone
bidders and a European private bidder
in the room ensured it surpassed the
£200,000-300,000 guide to sell for
£360,000 to the latter.
The following lot at Christie’s was a
powerful 15in (38.1cm) marble bust of
Livia’s great grandson, the notorious
Emperor Gaius better known by his
nickname, Caligula, meaning ‘little
boot’. The emperor’s megalomaniacal
reign lasted four short years before he
was murdered so the dating for this
bust, probably created to celebrate his
accession, was a narrow c.37-41AD.
The head portrayed the typical
characteristics associated with the few
surviving known portraits of Caligula: the
broad forehead, high, hollow temples,
thin, pursed lips, and the proud turn of
Christie’s had to withdraw four lots after
press coverage linked them with the art
dealers Giacomo Medici and Gianfranco
Becchina, both convicted in the last
decade of trafﬁcking antiquities (see ATG
No 2188).
When asked whether the negative
press affected the sale at Christie’s, Ms
Delaloye said: “I think you can see by the
strong results from the sale that it did not
have an effect,” however, she reiterated
her desire to see the so-called Medici
archive made available.
his head. The damage – a literal defacing
– was perhaps inﬂicted deliberately after
the subject’s death.
It was not known to the academic
world until very recently, having been in a
Spanish private collection since the early
20th century. Estimated at £60,00080,000, it sold to one of two telephone
bidders for £170,000.
At Bonhams, a youthful and athletic
torso of Dionysus took top honours.
Ms Perridge described it as “a stunning
object and of a good size, not too
large with beautiful coloured marble
which matched the quality of the
carving”. Dated to c.1st century AD,
the 20in (51cm) high work, standing
contrapposto, hair falling on the
shoulders in two ﬂowing tendrils, was a
copy of a Greek model by Praxiteles.
It had a gallery stamp for the London
dealer Michel Dumez-Onof where it
had been in the 1970s, before entering
a Spanish private collection in the mid1980s. It sold just above the £180,000
- 200,000 estimate for £210,000 to a
private bidder on the phone.
On the same topic, Miss Perridge
added: “In London we have stringent
provenance policies – you want your buyer
to feel conﬁdent in what they’re buying
– it is in everybody’s interests that we are
diligent.
“Our April auction was actually
checked [by a third party] against the
Medici and Becchina archives and all
future catalogues will be too. So we are
moving in the right direction but the
point remains that the archives should be
accessible by all or utilised by none!”
Antiques Trade Gazette
NEAR EASTERN
Demand for Near Eastern material has
been softer than some other sectors
of the antiquities market but, as this
series demonstrated, there will always
be exceptions. Some pieces in this ﬁeld
appeal to Contemporary art collectors.
The stand-out lot at Christie’s was a
9in (23cm) high Piravend bronze female
worshipper originating from Iron Age Iran
(c.1000-650 BC).
Covered in a blue-green patina
distinctive of pieces from north-western
Iran, the highly stylised ﬁgure wore a
conical headdress with a large diamondshaped head, two hoop earrings, raised
bent arms and short legs. With a good
provenance – it had been acquired by
Charles Gillet (1879-1972) in the early
20th century and was consigned to the
sale by his family – it sold for double
the top estimate at £60,000. The buyer,
Salamon Aaron of London gallery David
Aaron, was seated in the room.
Another highly stylised work with
similar appeal was a 9in (23cm) South
Arabian alabaster head dated to c.1st
century BC/AD, offered at Bonhams for
Above: London ﬁrm Chiswick Auctions are
dipping their toe into the antiquities market by
offering a dedicated sale on June 16. The auction
is headed by specialist Claudio Corsi, formerly of
Bonhams where he worked for ﬁve years, and will
be aimed at the middle market. The move comes
after Bonhams ceased holding their sales of
affordable antiquities in Knightsbridge last year
– “we are ﬁlling the gap they left,” said Mr Corsi.
A further sale has been scheduled for September
29, during the next London antiquities series.
Consigned so far to the June 16 sale is this
Roman bronze lion appliqué, c.1st-2nd century
AD. Possibly from a piece of furniture, the 2in
(5cm) piece comes from an English private
collector, who acquired it from Rupert Wace
Ancient Art in 1999.
It is guided at £400-600.
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the ﬁrst time since it entered a French
private collection in about 1967. Its long
oval neck and face with gently arching
eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, long
straight nose and small mouth, appealed
to a number of bidders. It sold for
£35,000 against a £5000-7000 estimate.
Also selling well in the section was
a 5½in (14cm) high Canaanite stocky
bronze and silver bull, c.12th-8th century
BC. This weighty object, the neck and
well-deﬁned face still retaining a thick
layer of sheet silver, represented the
deity Baal. Bonhams’ Madeleine Perridge
said it had “great presence”. Consigned
from a French private collection, it was
hammered down at a mid-estimate
£50,000 to a seated bidder at the back
of the room.
Above: Canaanite bronze and silver bull –
£50,000 at Bonhams.
Above right: Piravend bronze female
worshipper – £60,000 at Christie’s.
Right: South Arabian alabaster head –
£35,000 at Bonhams.
CARTER’S OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS
Before Howard Carter became the world-famous archaeologist who discovered the
tomb of Tutankhamun, he was an artist. Between 1894 and 1899, Carter worked
at Deir el-Bahri near Luxor making watercolour copies of tomb decorations, an
essential job in the age before colour photography. One of his watercolours from
this period, a relief of Queen Ahmose from the Temple of Hatshepsut, proved
particularly popular and he subsequently made copies of it to sell to tourists.
One of these was offered at Bonhams’ antiquities sale on April 16. The 15 x
11½in (38 x 29cm) work depicts Queen Ahmose, the wife of Tuthmosis I (c.15251404 BC), wearing the Royal Vulture Crown, a headdress reserved for the ‘Principal
Wife of the King’ and a symbol of protection. Consigned from the property of an
English deceased estate, it drew strong bidding against a £8000-12,000 estimate to
sell to London dealer Rupert Wace for £16,000.
In December, Bonhams also sold a pair of Carter’s watercolours, The Temple
of Hatshepsut and Under the protection of the gods, works from 1899 and 1908
which had been consigned from The Fine Art Society. They sold for £9500 and
£12,000 respectively.
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antiquities
EGYPTIAN ART
This is one of the market’s most
fashionable areas, with collectors
especially responsive to classically
Egyptian-looking artefacts. “Buyers
want pieces that stand out, that capture
the imagination, they want pieces that
display an exoticism and sculptural
quality,” says Ms Perridge.
One such piece was a 17in (43cm)
bronze and gilt wood Ibis consigned
from the collection of art historian and
actor, Beverly Whitney Kean (1921-2011).
Dated to the Late and Ptolemaic periods
(c.664-30BC), this recumbent Egyptian
god had ﬁnely detailed cast bronze
legs, tail and head with a carved wood
body covered in (repainted) striking
gilt gesso. Accompanied by a copy of
an insurance listing dated to 1962, it
was priced at £30,000-50,000. Several
bidders were keen, looking beyond the
modern restoration, and it was eventually
hammered down at £110,000 to a bidder
on the phone.
Another piece with ‘presence’ at
Bonhams was a New Kingdom wood
mummy mask fragment c.1550-1070 BC.
Measuring 10in (25cm) high, the face had
been sensitively carved; the lips pressed
together into a slight smile, and deep
recessed eyes which would have once
contained inlays. It had formerly been in
the Swiss Scheps collection formed in the
1930s-1960s. Estimated at £3000-4000,
it sparked a contest between two bidders
in the room before it eventually sold for
£75,000 to London dealer Rupert Wace.
“If we had priced this at £30,00050,000 we would have been laughed
out the room,” said Ms Perridge. It was
probably a case of the “right buyers,
and ﬁtting a particular need at the right
time which made this piece so extremely
sought after”, she added.
Above: New Kingdom wood mummy mask
fragment – £75,000 at Bonhams.
Above: silver royal diadem – £160,000 at Christie’s
Left: bronze and gilt wood ibis – £110,000 at Bonhams.
While the collection of Alton Edward
Mills provided the bulk of the Egyptian
lots at Christie’s (see below), the sale
also incorporated a small, mixed-owner
offering which mostly performed well.
The outstanding lot of the section
was silver royal diadem, retaining some
traces of original gilding. One of only
two known to exist, it dated to the
Second Intermediate period of the 17th
Dynasty (c.1580-1550 BC) – a particularly
tumultuous time in Egypt. The use of the
Above: Middle Kingdom serpentine shabti
– £180,000 at Christie’s.
Right: Old Kingdom Opening of the Mouth
ceremony ritual set – £60,000.
double uraei in the design – the stylised
representation of two sacred cobras,
protectors of the royal power in ancient
Egyptian art – suggested the diadem was
originally the property of a queen.
The use of silver, a much-coveted
metal only available to ancient Egyptians
through trade or as a spoil of war,
reinforced this.
The diadem had formerly been in
the Yorkshire Museum before it sold in
1953 to London collector and dealer of
manuscripts, ﬁne art and ethnographic
artefacts, Kenneth Webster (1906-1967).
From there, it entered the collection of
the art dealer and collector Margaret
Burg with whom it remained, passing
down by descent.
Estimated at £100,000-150,000,
it sold to an anonymous buyer for
£160,000. “This appealed to serious
collectors of Egyptian art – they are
unlikely ever to ﬁnd another,” said Ms
Delaoye.
ALTON EDWARD MILLS
Ancient Egyptian objects from the
collection of Alton Edward Mills opened
Christie’s antiquities sale on April 15 in
King Street.
A keen amateur Egyptologist, Mr
Mills assembled his collection between
the 1920s and ‘50s when he lived and
worked in Egypt. Expelled from Egypt
as a British citizen during the Suez
crisis – and displeased at the prospect
of returning to the English climate – he
settled in Switzerland at La Tour-de-Peilz,
where he spent the rest of his life.
Proof of the enduring appeal of
quality, condition, provenance and
market freshness, these 50-plus lots
totalled just over £700,000.
The star was an exceptionally rare
9in (23 cm) high Egyptian serpentine
shabti, from the Middle Kingdom (1112th dynasty, c.2055-1773 BC). The
ﬁgure was carved with three horizontal
relief ‘bandages’, a bag wig and a broad
necklace. The well-modelled facial
features included high cheekbones,
pointed chin, lidded almond-shaped eyes
and prominent ears. It had retained traces
of red pigment.
The quality of the carving led Christie’s
to suggest a royal workshop. Another
draw was its provenance, having been
included in the 1921 Hotel Drouot sale
in Paris for the Hirsch Collection of
antiquities. Three bidders in the room
and a telephone participant battled it out
well above the £30,000-50,000 estimate.
In the end it was secured by London
dealer Rupert Wace for £180,000.
Mr Wace was also successful bidding
for the other stand-out lot from the
collection, an unusual and intact Egyptian
stone ritual set dating from the Old
Kingdom (c.2494-2181BC).
The 9 x 6in (23 x 16cm) trapezoidal
limestone tray, cut with seven depressions
to hold alabaster and limestone vases and
cups, and a red quartzite ﬁshtail peseshkef instrument at the centre, was used in
the Opening of the Mouth ceremony – a
key part of the funerary process.
The ritual was thought to restore the
deceased’s sensorial faculties, so that
they could regain the power to breathe
and speak, as well as to eat and drink the
offerings which would be provided for
them. The vases would have contained
purifying liquids and the cups would have
been used to pour libations.
It doubled top estimate to sell for
£60,000.
Antiques Trade Gazette
Martin Clist, managing director
of leading London antiquities
gallery Charles Ede Ltd, gives
his thoughts on the antiquities
market, including how the gallery
is attracting a younger audience
and the wider challenges facing
the trade.
ATG: It has been said that you have
brought a fresh approach to Charles
Ede Ltd by promoting antiquities to
Contemporary collectors – how have
you achieved this and what have been
the results?
MC: I have a background in both
contemporary and classical art: ﬁrstly
studying as a postgraduate painter
at the Slade, and later working in the
contemporary art world.
My ﬁrst job was as the manager of
the Whitechapel Gallery when Nick
Serota was the director. Working with
him was a revelatory experience. He
is not only a man with a questioning
mind and immaculate taste but also
a phenomenal curator. It was there I
met many artists, such as Sean Scully,
Richard Deacon, Julian Schnabel, as
well as collectors.
Later I moved to Waddington
Galleries before going on to Karsten
Schubert, meeting and working with
the (then) Young British Artists such as
Ian Davenport, Anya Gallacio, Michael
Landy etc.
At Charles Ede I have simply
freshened it up a little, giving it a light
clean you might say. It is a gallery with
a fantastic history, unique in having a
highly academic background dating
back over 40 years. I don’t want to lose
this rich legacy.
However, times have changed and
a younger audience is eager to learn
and collect. They can be met at art
fairs and obviously use the internet.
The website is an important link to a
much wider world today than even ten
years ago.
Our catalogues and website
have changed stylistically, to look
‘cleaner’; the academic language has
been enriched a touch and we have
expanded on certain elements which
in the past might have been accepted
as known. For instance, knowledge
of Greek myths or the gods of Egypt
can no longer be assumed yet they
are fascinating and still have deep
resonance today.
Fortunately, Charles Ede has always
bought the very best and the very best
sells, so there has been no need to
tailor our purchasing to these changes.
However we now have to look to the
wider retail world as much as academia
if we are to be commercially successful.
We are art dealers and see ourselves
within the larger art world, but we
Above: this ﬁne Hellenistic wreath with projecting sprays of sheet-gold oak
leaves is estimated at £10,000-15,000 in TimeLine Auctions’ sale on May
27-30 at The Swedenborg Hall in London. In ﬁne condition, the 7¼in (30cm)
piece was acquired by the vendor, a London collector, in the late 1970s.
Greek wreaths such as this were usually worn for religious ceremonies and
have been discovered all over the Hellenistic world in funerary contexts, as
far as Asia Minor, the Black Sea coasts and Magna Graecia. The oak leaves
may symbolise Zeus, who was often represented by the oak tree.
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must not forget how other retailers
present their goods.
Last summer we moved to a space,
completely redesigned in a style which
is very modern yet the panelled walls
make reference to the Georgian world
of the Grand Tour. This comfortable,
unstuffy ‘feel’ is now echoed in our
art fair stands to provide an elegant
space in what is a very temporary
environment.
ATG: How would you persuade a
potential client that antiquities are a
good place to invest?
MC: Firstly, I have to say that we are
not investment consultants. If you are
buying antiquities – or any other kind
of art – to make money, then good
luck to you, but I wouldn’t advocate
it. We are art dealers, we sell art to
people who should buy something
they love.
That’s my criteria when buying
for the gallery, and I feel it’s an
appropriate mantra for any collector
whether seasoned or novice. Having
said that, prices in the antiquity market
have traditionally increased, the market
is solid and not susceptible to the
more volatile, one could say neurotic,
roller-coaster experience of the
contemporary art world.
ATG: The recent destruction of cultural
heritage sites in Syria and Iraq is a
cause for universal concern. What
can be done to prevent illicit artefacts
circulating on the market?
MC: Of course, what we see and
understand is happening in those
countries is heartbreaking, devastating.
However, if the armed forces of the
world’s major civilised countries world
TAPELEY PARK VASES
Eight attic vases from Tapeley Park in Devon were
on offer at Christie’s – three of them formerly in
the collections of Sir William Hamilton and Thomas
Hope and acquired at Christie’s famous 1917 auction
of the Hope Heirlooms. In theory this was stellar
material. However, estimates were punchy and the
right buyers were absent on the day.
Only ﬁve of the eight got away with just the one
piece generating much in the way of competition.
This was the typically ornate 4th century Apulian
red-ﬁgure volute-krater, right, acquired for Tapeley
Park sometime in the early 20th century. Measuring
a good 2ft 6in (74cm) high, it was decorated with
various scenes including the Amazonomachy – the
battle between the Greeks and the mythological
race of female warriors, the Amazons – and a
more sedate composition on the reverse, depicting
mourners surrounding a stele, bearing offerings and
adornments for the grave.
“It had pedigree, was in very good condition,
had remarkable painting and was of an exceptional
size”, said Laetita Deloye of Christie’s. A winning
bid of £110,000 from a “well known” European
private buyer secured the lot, almost double the top
estimate.
can only stand helpless, then the role
of any single dealer in preventing the
wholesale destruction of places such
as Nimrud can only be of inﬁnitesimal
import.
Nonetheless, small as it is, the
legitimate dealers can have a vital
contribution. We know what is
legitimately on the market, so are best
placed to know what is likely to be
fresh and illicit. Individual dealerships,
along with organisations such as the
International Association of Dealers in
Ancient Art (IADAA), work to help the
appropriate authorities. Having said
that, we haven’t seen any items from
Syria or Iraq.
ATG: How has negative publicity on
the antiquities trade affected business,
for instance the latest ‘controversy’
over items which turned up at
Christie’s from the so-called Medici
and Becchina archives?
MC: Controversy is a strong word
but certainly the waters have been
muddied recently. It should be
remembered that these ‘archives’
are not some kind of master list of
deﬁnitely dodgy goods, they are
groups of photographs formerly in
the possession of two dealers (neither
to my knowledge, convicted of any
crime). It is possible that they contain
items which are quite legitimate.
It must be said, however, that it is
quite incomprehensible to me why
these ‘archives’ and their information
are not made generally available to the
trade, or even to the Art Loss Register
– which is a database used by nearly
every dealer. It’s difﬁcult to see how
auction houses can be criticised until
this information is truly public.
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Chiswick, London W4
Contemporary, Fine Art
& Selected Antiques sale
Contemporary & Fine Art | Jewellery | Watches
Silver | Furniture | Works of Art
Tuesday 12th May at 6pm
Viewing: Saturday 9th May to Tuesday 12th May, 10am-6pm
Trade viewing by appointment
Fully illustrated catalogue available online from Saturday 9th May
Bid live with us online at
Lot 423: K-Guy (Contemporary British
school), ‘Boy Soldier’, a life size¿EUHJODVV¿JXUDOVWXG\
£7,000-9,000
Lot 63: Henry Arnold (1979-1945), ‘Jeune
Fille la Colombe’, bronze, 31.5cm high
£600-800
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Lot 205: An unusual 18 carat yellow gold, diamond and green
sapphire dress ring, the sapphire of approx.13.2 carat
£3,000-5,000
Lot 48: A rare mid-19th century
Black Forest automaton
bracket clock
£5,000-7,000
Lot 194: An Imperial yellow
ground Canton porcelain
vase, bears six character
mark to base, 40cm high
£500-800
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diameter 24cm x depth 1.5cm
£1,200-1,800
Lot 500: Banksy (British, b.1975),
‘Turf War’, screen print, numbered
180/750 in pencil lower right,
49cm high x 34.5cm wide
£7,000-9,000
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kava bowl, diameter.81cm and 53cm
Provenance: Given to vendor as gift by King Taufa’ahau IV
(Royal family of Tonga)
£400-600
Lot 260: Retailed by M. Ramdeo & Co. Calcutta,
two cased Indian silver tea services,
early 20th century
£1,000-1,500
Lot 420: Mr Brainwash (French, b.1966), ‘Star Wars’, silkscreen print on paper,
signed in pencil lower right and dated 08, numbered 3/5 lower left.
76cm high x 56cm wide
£3,500-4,500
Lot 510: Banksy (British, b.1975), ‘Grannies’, screen print, numbered 224/500 in pencil
lower right, blind-stamped lower right, 91cm high x 110cm wide
£5,000-7,000
Lot 100: An 18th century Dutch
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repeating longcase clock
£6,000-8,000
Lot 550: Mr Brainwash (French, b.1966), ‘Kate Moss’, silkscreen and acrylic
on paper, signed in pastel to verso, numbered 06718522D to verso.
122cm high x 122cm wide
£12,000-15,000
Lot 462: Banksy (British, b.1975), ‘Donuts Strawberry’, screen print,
signed in pink pencil lower left, blindstamped, numbered 242/299.
56cm high x 76cm wide
£10,000-15,000
For further information regarding this sale, please contact the team at
[email protected] or on 020 8400 5225
High Road Auctions, 30-34 Chiswick High Road, London W4 1TE Tel: 020 8400 5225
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A pair of sculpted limestone models of
recumbent lions, after Antonio Canova
(Venetian, 1757 - 1822), 20th century
Est. £12,000-18,000
A massive Italian sculpted marble
wellhead in the form of a Corinthian capital,
20th century
Est. £9,000-12,000
A bronze and wrought iron armillary
sphere mounted onto a terracotta pedestal,
the sphere early 20th century
Est. £2,000-3,000
A monumental and impressive Italian
sculpted limestone group of Bacchus
with a satyr, early 20th century
Est. £40,000-60,000
A sculpted limestone model of the
Samothrace Nike, 20th century
Est. £10,000-15,000
A fine French stained walnut architectural
model of a gothic edifice, 19th century
Est. £5,000-8,000
A carved limestone exedra seat, 20th century
132cm high, 300cm wide, 100cm deep
Est. £6,000-8,000
Follower of James Pradier (French 1790 - 1852),
a pair of Continental sculpted white marble herm
figures representing Bacchus and a Bacchante in
neoclassical taste, late 19th century
Est. £50,000-70,000
The Piet Jonker Collection
Garden Ornament, Architectural Fittings and Interior Decoration
Auction Date: Wednesday 27th May 2015
Auction Location: Mallett, Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London W1S 4NJ
Full sale on view at Piet Jonker:
Piet Jonker, Rijksstraatweg 23, 1396 JC Baambrugge, The Netherlands
Saturday 23rd May - Monday 25th May, 11.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 26th May, 10.00am - 5.00pm
Catalogue available at: www.dreweatts.com
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Tuesday 5th May - Friday 8th May, 10.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday 9th May, 11.00am - 4.00pm
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FINE ART, ASIAN ART AND ANTIQUES
Saturday 16th May at 10am
Viewing
strictly:
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10am until 4pm,
Friday 15th May
10am until 8pm
and morning of
the sale from 8am
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900 lots to include:
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Lot 393. An 18ct hallmarked 3.60ct, colour I/J, clarity SI2
diamond solitaire ring
Est £16,000-18,000
Lot 454. A 1970s Bjorn Weckstrom, Finland sterling
silver ‘Silver Sails’ bracelet, stamped Lapponia
Est £500-800
Lot 591. A pair of 19th Century Chinese shallow bowls,
bearing Kangxi marks
Est £400-600
For complete listings, see
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Lot 592. A late
19th Century ivory
figure of Kwannon,
signed Takegawa
Est £8,000-12,000
Lot 608. A late 18th to 19th Century
Chinese bamboo root carving
Est £700-800
Lot 746. A late 19th Century
Cree stroud octopus bag,
possibly Manitoba or Winnipeg
Est £600-800
Lot 49. A Royal Worcester study of
a Borzoi modelled by Doris Linder,
mould 3426, dated 1951
Est £400-600
Lot 800. An early 20th Century
Schuco Bellhop ‘Yes-No’ monkey
Est £150-200
Lot 183. A late 19th Century
Thomas Webb & Sons cameo glass
bowl in the Persian taste
Est £1,000-1,200
Lot 743. A Georgian ebonised fruitwood double fusee
eight-day quarter repeating bracket clock, dial marked
Baddely, Albrighton, height 44cm
Est £4,000-5,000
Lot 651. ITALIAN SCHOOL
(18TH CENTURY), Christ Feeding
the Multitude, oil on canvas
Est £600-800
Lot 605. A late 19th Century enamelled
silver, gold lacquer and Shibayama vase
Est £2,000-3,000
Lot 674 - SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956),
‘Britain’s Call to Arms’, lithograph, signed in pencil
Est £2,000-3,000
Lot 721. A telegram to the 617 Squadron from
Harris informing of the death of Guy Gibson
Est £400-600
Lot 249. A large early 20th
Century Kralik glass vase
Est £300-400
Lot 847. An early 17th Century oak two-tier livery cupboard of narrow proportions
Est £3,000-5,000
Antiques Trade Gazette
Mallams
Mallams
Design
British Art
to include Michael Ayrton, Mary Fedden,
Paul Feiler, Augustus John, Anish Kapoor,
Carel Weight
to include 250 lots of
Studio Ceramics,
Cotswold School
Furniture,
Ferdinand Preiss,
Moorcroft and
Post-War Modernism
Wednesday
13 May 2015
Oxford
Illustrated:
Ferdinand Preiss
(German, 1882-1943)
Pierrette
overall 17.9cm high
£1500-2500
Viewing:
Saturday 9 May
Monday 11 May
Tuesday 12 May
Wednesday 13 May
9am – 12.30pm
9am – 5pm
9am – 5pm
8.30am – 10am
Mallams Auctioneers
Bocardo House
24a St. Michael’s Street
Oxford OX1 2EB
www.mallams.co.uk
Wednesday
13 May 2015
Oxford
Illustrated:
Michel Ayrton (1921-1975)
Points of Departure, 4/9,
bronze.
£3,000-7,000
Viewing:
Saturday 9 May
Monday 11 May
Tuesday 12 May
Wednesday 13 May
Mallams Auctioneers
Bocardo House
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Saturday 16th May at 2pm
JAPANESE & ISLAMIC CERAMICS
& WORKS OF ART
PERSIAN & EUROPEAN CARPETS,
RUGS & TEXTILES
Saturday 16th May at 10.30am
Antique Turkish
Bergama long rug
(property of a lady).
Estimate £400-600
Bid live online at
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Japanese black lacquer cabinet, late 17th century
(property of a gentleman)
Estimate £ 800-1,200
A very rare Chinese blue and white
reverse decorated bowl, Yongzheng mark
and period (property of a deceased estate).
Provenance: the Warren tea family,
Assam, India, and thence by descent.
Estimate £8,000-12,000
Viewing: Thursday 14th May 9am-5.30pm,
Friday 15th May 9am-9pm and day of sale from 9am
Viewing before Thursday by prior arrangement
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A fine and rare pair of Chinese Imperial pale celadon jade models of jardinières, Qianlong 1736-95, 39cm overall.
Provenance: a distinguished private collection in the UK, purchased from John Sparks Ltd.
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Two-Day Fine Antiques
& Interiors Auction
Day 1: Tuesday 12th May – Knutsford Fine Art Saleroom
(Lots 1-1,163)
Day 2: Thursday 14th May – Beeston Fine Art Saleroom
(Lots 1,500-2,238)
Lot 2031. George Alexander Napier (British 1823-1869),
Lot 1117. Sir Frank William
Brangwyn RA RWS RBA (British, ‘Fresh Breeze’, oil on canvas.
1867-1956), ‘The gates of Hull’, £6,000-8,000
oil on canvas.
£6,000-8,000
Lot 1163. Charlie Shiels (British,
1947-2012), ‘Mid-afternoon in Hotel
Pacicio’, oil on canvas.
£4,000-6,000
Lot 355. A pair of exquisite
quality Fondica gilt bronze
table lamps.
£2,000-3,000
Lot 1623A. A ﬁne George IV
hallmarked silver four-piece
tea and coffee service.
£1,000-1,500
Lot 1040A. Harold Riley (British b.1934)
‘Italian street scene’, oil on panel, signed
and dated (19)64.
£6,000-8,000
A ﬁne quality Asprey
9ct gold chess set
£3,000-4,000
Lot 2075. A ﬁne 18th century Dutch
marquetry longcase clock,
signed Jan Bernardus Vrijthoff.
£3,000-4,000
Lot 1845A. A large and substantial vintage
leather suitcase by Drew and Sons.
£250-300
Lot 2211. A ﬁne 18th century Montgomeryshire oak pot board dresser base.
£2,000-3,000
Part of a collection of over 40 pieces of
Moorcroft in this sale.
Lot 2045. A 19th century French gilt metal
and porcelain mounted mantel clock.
£600-800
Beeston Saleroom viewing:
Knutsford Saleroom viewing:
Sunday 10th May 10am-4pm, Monday 11th May 10am-6.30pm
and Tuesday 12th May 9am-6.30pm
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Asian Art
Tuesday 19 May
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Fully illustrated catalogue
£13 including P&P
and online bidding at
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ON VIEW:
Lot 193. A large bronze Bodhisattva,
Ming dynasty, late 16th/early 17th century,
58cm
£2,000-3,000
Lot 182. A well carved
white jade dragon,
18th century, 7cm
£800-1,200
Lot 217. A good silver three-piece teaset, c.1880, teapot, 12.5cm
£2,000-3,000
Friday 15 May
Saturday 16 May
Sunday 17 May
Monday 18 May
Tuesday 19 May
9am-5pm
No Viewing
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9am-5pm
from 9am
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Lot 63. A blue and white
Tibetan-style butter-tea cup,
six character seal mark and
period of Qianlong,
9cm diameter x 9.7cm high
£700-1,000
Lot 540. A lacquer
Suzuribako, mid-19th
century, 24.5 x 22cm
£700-1,000
Lot 236. A cloisonné seal box and
cover, possibly 18th century,
9.5 x 10cm
£3,000-5,000
Lot 235. A rare
cloisonné censer,
probably Jiaqing
(1796-1820), 22cm
£20,000-25,000
Lot 320. A rare Imperial edict hand scroll,
Tongzhi, 1862, 382cm
£1,000-2,000
Lot 231. A cloisonné vase (Hu),
second half of the 17th century,
28.5cm
£1,000-1,500
Lot 250. A large coral carving,
20th century, 20.2cm
£5,000-8,000
Lot 371. An
attractive lacquer
vase stand, second
half of the 18th
century, 49.5cm
£3,000-4,000
Lot 207. A good Sino-Tibetan bronze, possibly
of Vajrasatva, cast Qianlong mark and
of the period 16.3cm
£2,000-3,000
Lot 101. A large Dayazhai
vase, c.1895, 57.4cm
£50,000-70,000
Lot 246. A ﬁne and
decorative mixed media
zitan-framed ﬂoor screen,
late 19th/early 20th century,
143 x 82cm
Est £3,000-4,000
Lot 370. A zitan scroll table
(Hua’an), 18th/19th century,
width 132cm x height 77.8cm
x depth 44cm
£8,000-12,000
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Lot 299. A superb
zitan Scholar’s Rock,
late 17th/early 18th
century, 20cm
£3,000-5,000
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TRAVEL & MILITARY HISTORY, MAPS, PRINTS & DOCUMENTS
ANTIQUARIAN & EARLY PRINTED BOOKS - WEDNESDAY 13 MAY at 10am
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1. Churchill, World Crisis, 6 vols., 1923-31.
Estimate: £4000-6000
7. Williamson, Costume of Modern India,
[1823]. Estimate: £1000-1500
13. London & South West fusee wall clock.
Estimate: £700-1000
19. Waterloo pair to Corporal William Buckley
(one of 145 medal lots). Estimate: £3500-4000
2. Captain Scott’s Discovery Expedition
buttons, 1901-1904. Estimate: £1200-1500
8. Walker, Costume of Yorkshire, 1814.
Estimate: £500-800
14. A circa 1885 Singer & Co. 56 inch Ordinary.
Estimate: £3400-3800
20. Patek Phillipe Electronic Master Clock,
circa 1975. Estimate: £3000-4000
3. Mudford, Campaign in the Netherlands,
1817. Estimate: £500-800
9. Speed, Cornwall, 1st edition, 1611.
Estimate: £700-1000
15. Hess (Rudolf), archive of personal effects.
Estimate: £5000-7000
21. Battle of Britain Luftwaffe Pilots
Schwimmweste. Estimate: £4000-6000
4. Napoleonic Prisoner of War Box.
Estimate: £1500-2000
10. Correggio, Psyche & Aurora, Venice, 1515.
Estimate: £400-600
16. Macrinus (217-218 AD) Denarii
(one of 50 coin lots). Estimate: £150-200
22. Zeppelin glass plaque depicting LZ 127.
Estimate: £500-700
5. Battle of Trafalgar Broadside, [1805].
Estimate: £400-600
11. Mengin, Atlas to Histoire de l’Egypte, 1823.
Estimate: £700-1000
17. French Colonies – General Issues
(one of 70 stamp lots). Estimate: £400-500
23. Schnaufer (Heinz Wolfgang), the port tail fin
from his Bf110G-4. Estimate: £15000-20000
6. Kitchin, New Universal Atlas, 1801.
Estimate: £7000-10000
12. Montgomery Martin, Illustrated Atlas,
circa 1860. Estimate: £2000-3000
18. Rolex Oyster belonging to Laurence Carter
(The Great Escape). Estimate: £7000-10000
24. Bader (Group Captain Sir Douglas) presentation
model circa 1950s. Estimate: £2000-3000
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auction reports
Gloves off for Armouries bidding
AN eclectic private collection of arms and
armour attracted international bidders to
the Stratford Armouries for Cuttlestones’
(17.5% buyer’s premium) sale there on
March 28. The Warwickshire museum
contains the personal arms and armour
collection of James Wigington.
More than 90% of the 620 lots got
away to total £360,000 and, back at the
West Midlands ﬁrm’s base in Penkridge,
auctioneer Ben Gamble said: “We’re now
ﬂat out organising delivery of lots that
sold as far aﬁeld as China, the US and
Australia.”
Topping the day was a 6ft 2in (1.88m)
carved oak ﬁgure of a man in Maximilian
armour. The term describes the multiﬂuted armour, possibly ﬁrst made for
Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian I, which
was the transitional stage between plain
15th century armour and later more
elaborately decorated pieces. The carving
was thought to be 16th century.
It was catalogued as a/f, with
restoration to the helmet and gauntlets,
but doubled the mid-estimate when it
sold on commission at £9000.
Going at more than ten times the
top estimate was another 16th century
offering, a boy’s articulated armour
glove. Modelled as a pointing ﬁgure, the
7½in (19cm) long glove carried hopes of
£200-400 but sold online to a UK bidder
at £4800.
Best of the weaponry at the Armouries
was a Chinese bronze cannon with a 3ft
6in (1.07m) long, multi-stage barrel and an
inscription in Chinese round the cascabel
reading General of the 3rd army ordered
the casting 1862. Apart from a few knocks
consistent with age, the gun was in very
good condition, as was the later wooden
carriage, and sold on the phone to a UK
buyer on the lower estimate at £8000.
Provenance was key to the success of
a steel dagger made in India but of the
janbiya or khanjar style more associated
with the Arabian Peninsula.
With a polished rock crystal grip
the 15in (38.5cm) dagger was in itself
attractive, but an old typed label within
the European-made leather case made
it more so: Jambia Rock Crystal Salt,
Property of T.E. Lawrence/Clouds Hill,
Lawrence of Arabia. Purchased J.W.
Cottee & Son, Wareham, Dorset.
Last on the market in September 2003
when it took a triple-estimate £1600
at London coins and militaria specialist
auctioneers Dix Noonan & Webb, it was
estimated at £2000-3000 at Cuttlestones
where it sold in the room at £3100.
Association was everything in a
small collection of treen from the same
consignment. The same UK collector took
all the top lots.
An 11½in (29.5cm) tall oak goblet
carved with ﬂoral and leaf decoration
and a white metal ‘Swan of Avon’
ﬁnial and cover was carved to the base
Shakespeare’s Mulberry Wood from New
Place 1867. Estimated at £150-200, it sold
at £1600.
A 3½in (9cm) wide carved oak snuff
box with a tortoiseshell-lined interior made
the connection clearer, being inscribed
Made from the wood of the mulberry tree
planted by William Shakespeare. Complete
with a cameo bust of the Bard to the lid, it
made a ten-times-estimate £2200.
A similarly sized turned wooden,
tortoiseshell-lined snuff box with theatrical
links was labelled as being Made from the
Cypress tree planted by Mr & Mrs Garrick
– the great 18th century actor David
and his Viennese wife Eva Marie. With
a cameo inset to the lid and dated 1822
it, too, eclipsed the £150-200 estimate
selling at £1600.
MOORCROFT ON EXHIBITION
Potteries Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in
Staffordshire offered this William Moorcroft exhibition
vase in the second auction at their new premises in
Silverdale on April 25. Standing 23in (59cm) high, it is
signed and dated 1928. The silver-plated mounts with
cast and embossed ﬂoral decoration were probably
made in Hanley by the Duchess of Sutherland
Silversmiths, also known as the Cripples Guild, under
the guidance of Francis Arthur Edwards.
The pattern is the classic Eventide design but here
is ﬁred in a ﬂambé glaze. An original paper label to
the base (perhaps written in Moorcroft’s own hand)
read simply 150 – a price in either dollars or pounds.
Many of the ﬂambé wares from this period were
made for export and this vase was purchased in
Canada ﬁve or six years ago by the private collector
who consigned it for sale. Only two small ﬁring cracks
to the base counted against it. Attracting half a dozen
interested parties at its £10,000-20,000 estimate,
it sold at £17,200 to a UK collector against a US buyer.
Only a few pieces of Moorcroft have made more in
recent years.
A similar sum – $27,000 (£17,650) – was paid
at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California, in
October 2013 for a Claremont pattern loving cup with
silver mounts by the San Francisco jewellers Shreve &
Co. In January that year a Macintyre period Hesparian
Ware jardinière and stand (sold for a record £28,000
in May 2002) reappeared at Woolley & Wallis to bring
£22,000 as part of the Ken Manley collection.
Above: 16th century carved oak ﬁgure in
Maximilian armour – £9000 at Cuttlestones.
Above left: 16th century child’s armour
glove – £4800.
Left: boxed jambiya/khanjar dagger linked
to Lawrence of Arabia – £3100.
MINOR MIRACLE
Unlike the real thing, the 1993 pedal car version of the Morris Minor
1000 never caught on – until this example, above, was offered at Halls
(19.5% buyer’s premium) at Shrewsbury on March 25.
Made by the Morris Minor Centre of Bath, it was modelled after the
J-40 pedal car manufactured by the Nufﬁeld Group in the 1950s but
came with treadle-action pedals and opening boot and bonnet, which
revealed a dummy engine and six-volt battery to operate lights and horn.
Halls toy specialist Stewart Orr remembers its debut at the 1993 Earls
Court Motor Show where it was a huge hit with critics but, at £800 and
too large for the average house, was a commercial ﬂop.
“It became a white elephant,” said Mr Orr. “Only 56 were ever made
and I never saw one again until this one arrived at Halls.”
In unused condition, it tripled the estimate selling to a Lancashire
buyer on the phone at £3600.
“That’s probably a world record,” said Mr Orr. “A woman who works
for Halls actually bought a real one for less.”
Antiques Trade Gazette
A CUMBRIAN IN SHROPSHIRE
The April 15 sale at Halls (19.5% buyer’s premium) included
a reference to the prodigious spending of the 5th Earl Lonsdale
whose wastrel ways were discussed in a recent BBC Antiques
Roadshow programme from his ruined seat at Lowther Castle
near Penrith.
Among the furniture at the Shropshire sale was this late
19th century Venetian 5ft 3in (1.34m) tall glass mosaic mirror,
left, its octagonal frame applied in relief with depictions of the
Doge’s Barge, the San Marco and San Teodoro columns and a
gondola. By repute it was part of the 1947 clear-out sale of the
castle the 6th Earl had to hold to pay his late brother’s debts. At
Shrewsbury, the mirror sold at £3400.
Above: at the Rayleigh, Essex, rooms of
Stacey’s (20% buyer’s premium)
this diminutive porcelain cricket cage
took off among the 1774 lots offered on
April 20-21.
The 2in (5cm) cube, decorated with
landscape scenes, was estimated at
£40-50, but two buyers were drawn to
the presence of a four-character Qianlong
mark to the turquoise base.
Potentially this a very rare object, but
was it of the period? There was almost
no observable pre-sale interest and the
bidding opened at £50. One can only
imagine the frustration of the Hong Kong
bidder and his mainland Chinese rival as
their online battle via the-saleroom.com
escalated to a hammer £17,000, victory
going to the mainland bidder.
Above: sparking an Anglo-US battle at Tunbridge Wells on April 8 was this Bing live-steam model
of a pre-First World War Kriegsmarine gunboat, above.
Offered at the quarterly specialist toy sale by C&T Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) the
2ft 8in (82cm) tinplate model dated c.1910 was in excellent original condition.
Marked GBN within the diamond logo and Bavaria, it retained its armoured crow’s nests, four
lifeboats, ﬂags to the two masts and two large revolving guns fore and aft. The only ﬂaw appeared
to be that one of the eight small revolving gun turrets was loose.
Fitted with a horizontal burner, the gunboat was estimated at £4000-6000 but a UK collector in
the room had to go to £9500 to win it against a rival American collector on the phone.
Below: “There’s nothing better than ﬁnding a special gem,” said toys specialist John Morgan who
ﬁrst viewed this rare clockwork tinplate rowing boat in a brown paper bag brought into Shefﬁeld
Auction Gallery (21% buyer’s premium). The 20½in (52cm) long toy dates from the 1920s.
It had no maker’s mark but opinion among expert bidders pointed to Stock of Germany. It was in
very good condition for its age, with just an oar missing and the synchronised movement keeping
the Oxford-blue rowers in perfect time. Estimated at £500-800, the boat attracted international
competition at the April 23 sale and sold at £1800.
THE £2400 AUBERGINE BANJO
As a general rule, prices for Banjo form vases, part of the so-called Textured range
designed by Geoffrey Baxter for the Whitefriars factory in the late 1960s, were at their
peak a decade ago. Then a succession of ever-greater auction prices were paid for
Baxter’s whacky forms, peaking around 2005 when a 12½in (32cm) Banjo vase in vibrant
tangerine would cost over £800 and a more unusual colour such as kingﬁsher blue or
meadow green closer to £1500. Today prices are typically lower with most trading at
auction for £300-600.
But, as witnessed at Chiswick Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) on April 28,
there are exceptions. Three Baxter Banjos were included in this sale from a deceased
estate and estimated at £300-500 each. The example in cinnamon (issued in 1967)
brought £480 and that in tangerine (made from 1969) took £500.
However, a vase with an amethyst hue – known to collectors as aubergine – took
a surprise £2400. According to factory records, the aubergine coloured Banjo vase was
only made for just three months in 1972 with only around 60 produced. Only versions in
Flint glass (just six were made) are harder to ﬁnd.
HIGHNESS PRICES
Unknown to many, the politician,
lawyer and broadcaster Lord Terence
Boston (1930-2011) held a deep and
abiding interest in Queen Victoria.
He and his wife were avid collectors
of memorabilia associated with the
monarch amassing a huge range of
commemoratives marking the events
of her reign. More than 300 pieces
were offered by Tennants in Leyburn
as part of the ﬁrm’s Country House
Sale on April 25.
As a general rule, items made in
the early years of Victoria’s long reign
are much harder to ﬁnd than those
from the jubilee era.
The sale attracted bids of £650 for
a version of the well-known Swansea
pottery waisted form Coronation mug
printed in puce with bust portraits
and suitably inscribed and £750 for a
Read & Clementson Coronation mug,
c.1838, combining portraits of Victoria
Regina and Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, her mother.
The few Victoria items that predate her reign are rarer still. The
highest price of the collection was bid
for a simple 7in (17.5cm) nursery plate
with a moulded border of animals
and rosettes and a black print titled
Princess Victoria.
John May pictures a plate like
this (perhaps the same one) in his
book Victoria Remembered: A Royal
History 1817-1861, describing it as the
only known example. It is thought
the print is taken from a painting
by William Ward c.1825. This plate,
with heavy crazing and some slight
discolouration, was estimated at
£100-200 but sold for a huge £2500.
Among the mass of ceramic
souvenirs marking the golden
and diamond jubilees were two
bargeware teapots. These appealed
to collectors in two camps: fans of
commemoratives and the small but
loyal groups of Measham pottery
collectors. A single spout teapot with
the inscription God Save the Queen
1887 sold at £550 but a doublespouted example applied with two
plaques reading Long Live Our Noble
Queen 1887 and W Taylor & Sons
Jubilee Tea took £1200.
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£500-800
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A Louis XV-style kingwood desk or side table with marquetry
line and ﬂoral inlay
£300-500
One of ten similar items in the 250-lot ﬁne furniture section
A set of Chad Valley Hygienic Textile toys
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with
original box
£300-500
One of over 50 lots of dolls and bears
Corgi Batmobile No.267 in original box
£100-200
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the 400-lot toy section
An Arts and Crafts carpet with repeated stylised tulip
pattern of William Morris or Donegal design
£800-1,200
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A pair of 19thC Meissen porcelain
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£600-900
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£400-600
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£400-600
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Swarovski crystal Myriad
Ji Xiang ‘The Carps’,
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£600-900
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£80-120
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£600-900
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Left: Frank Buck, a traveller and well-known vehicle dealer in York, left behind
a collection of 500 items of car memorabilia when he died in December. These
include car mascots, petrol pumps, posters and car parts, and the collection is
now on offer at auction at Summersgill, in the village of Easingwold near York,
on May 9, consigned by family. Mr Buck, who died at 75, worked for his father
Frank senior who also in the car trade. Frank junior was known throughout the
travelling community in York and this was reﬂected at his funeral, where there
was standing room only as hundreds turned up. His friend Bob Brown told the
York Press: “I’ve never met anyone who seemed to know every village in England.
If you named anywhere he would tell you how to get there and tell you the pub in
the village.” The Rolls-Royce mascots pictured are estimated at £200-300 each.
Contact 01904 791131
■ summersgills.com
Right: when Tamlyns of Bridgwater alerted us to some stand-out items from
their May 12 sale they added the line: “Thank goodness we have a very solid
ﬂoor!” The reason is obvious when you look at the picture. They have a selection
of old limestone staddle stones on offer from a farm clearance. These stones were
originally used to support grain stores – the building would be supported on these
‘mushrooms’ which prevented rats and mice from getting into the store to eat the
grain. They come in a range of sizes from very tall to short and squat and they are
now more commonly seen as garden ornaments. Estimates at Tamlyns range from
£150-400.
Contact 01278 445251
■ tamlyns.co.uk
Left: Trevanion & Dean of Whitchurch, Shropshire, offer the Dygnas collection of ﬁne
18th century European and English porcelain on May 9. This is a fresh-to-the-market
collection including Meissen, Hochst, Zuric, Vienna, Nymphenburg, Kloster Veilsdorf, Oude
Loosdrecht, Sèvres, Chelsea and Derby. Pictured here is a 6½in (17cm) tall Zurich porcelain
pedestal vase. The pierced rim has two maiden’s head handles above a painted continuous
harbour scene in puce. It is estimated at £200-300.
Contact 01948 800202
■ trevanionanddean.com
Above: this dress tunic is adorned with an
extensive Imperial Russian medal and order
group, including the Order of the White
Eagle (seen on the blue sash). Although the
decoration here dates from Tsarist Russia, the
order was originally created in 1705 by Augustus
II the Strong and is Poland’s highest decoration
awarded to both civilians and the military
for their merits. It is awarded to the most
distinguished Poles and the highest-ranking
representatives of foreign countries. The tunic,
medals and orders belonged to Lt General Paul
Konstantinovich Goudime-Levkovitsch
(1842-1907). Sold as one lot, they are estimated
at £60,000-90,000 in the May 16 sale at the JS
auction house in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Contact 01295 272488
■ jsauctions.co.uk
Right: this set of early 20th century Avery jockey scales with weights was one of two
at Newmarket and was sold after the war and used on Southend Pier as a fairground
scale. Auctioneers Adam Partridge, who are offering the set in Macclesﬁeld on
May 8 estimated at £8000-12000, say that the scale comprises a very early leather
mahogany chair in need of restoration but the scale weighs accurately to 2oz and
there is a full set of weights and original 1950s fairground board. Prior to auction, the
scale was on loan at The Avery Historical Museum which closed in August 2014. This
lot is accompanied by numerous photographs and clippings including a photograph
of ‘Teddy’ Edwin Watt who died in 2011 in Torbay. He had, up until 2000, used the
scales on Paignton seafront until health and safety banned him. He bought them
through his showman background in Southend in the early 1970s.
Contact 01625 431788
■ adampartridge.co.uk
Left: heroic RAF tales always add value to medals and a lot coming up at
Oxfordshire auction house The Swan at Tetsworth on May 7 has a ﬁne
story behind it. RAF Sgt Ronald Herbert Payne, known as Ron, who ﬂew
more than 20 operations as an air gunner from 1943, was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Medal (predecessor of the Distinguished Flying Cross)
following a ﬂight to Germany in November 1944. His aircraft was downed
by a Junkers but Ron still succeeded in shooting down the attacker before
following the rest of the crew and parachuting from his own burning aircraft.
He and a fellow air gunner were assisted by the Dutch underground, taken
to the nearest Allied base, and given a lift by an American general, ﬂying his
Dakota to London. Meanwhile, Ron had been reported as Missing In Action
to his family in Great Haseley (near Oxford), who were naturally delighted
following the safe return of the 21-year-old days later. Ron’s DFM, offered
with the supporting paperwork, is estimated at £2000-3000.
Contact 01844 281777
■ theswan.co.uk
Above: Surrey auctioneers Wellers are shifting
over to Kent for their May 16 sale. Dubbed A
Collection Of Architectural Antiques, Period
And Modern Garden Statuary, the auction
comprises 400 lots to be sold without reserve
or VAT on the hammer. The garden features and
architectural salvage on offer at Gaywood Farm,
Edenbridge, just four miles south-east of M25/
J14, come from a private collection assembled
over the last quarter of a century. Highlights
include a pair of cream-painted and profusely
decorated urns on plinths with a total height
of 8ft 3in (2.5m) estimated as a single lot at
£800-1200.
Contact 07966 437098
■ wellersauctions.com
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Halls Asian Art Auction
at Halls Holdings House, Bowmen Way,
Battleﬁeld, Shrewsbury, SY4 3DR
Wednesday 13th May at 10am
Viewing: Monday 11th May 9.30am-7pm
Tuesday 12th May 9.30am-4.30pm
Lot 120: A Chinese cinnabar lacquer ingot form box and
cover on a carved hardwood stand, early Qing Dynasty
£4,000-6,000
Above: the ﬁnal instalment of the collections of the late Stanley J Seeger will be offered in the form
of An Attic Sale at Tennants of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, on May 16. The eclectic sale catalogue
will be made up of about 800 lots, including silver, ceramics, pictures, furniture and more. This
single-owner sale features fresh-to-the-market goods, from salt-glazed bear jugs and a Russian
silver tea-set to early provincial cupboards and modern upholstered ‘thrones’. Pictured is a Pratt-type
model of a bear cub, c.1800, estimated at £600-800. Seeger, who died in 2011, was an Americanborn art collector who lived in the UK for the last three decades of his life. Much of his collection has
been sold at auction in London. Sotheby’s expert David Macdonald described Seeger as one of the
greatest post-war collectors.
Contact 01969 623780
■ tennants.co.uk
Right: Chicago businessman Roy
Warshawsky, whose remarkable
collection of Tiffany and European
decorative arts will shortly be sold in
New York, was also an avid collector
of Staffordshire pot lids and Prattware.
He had the idea of selling automotive
parts wholesale via a catalogue and it
was this interest in printing processes
which fuelled his buying from the early
1960s to the late ‘80s. The jewel in
his collection is a group of 23 original
watercolour designs by Jesse Austin
used to create transfers for pot lids. Formerly part of the celebrated GE Lambert collection, these
watercolours were acquired by Warshawsky at a sale held by Puttick & Simpson in December
1963. Each lot is contained in a Hogarth frame with gilt overmount and a hand-written label to
the reverse. Commemorative specialists Historical & Collectable offer them for sale on May
9 at the Padworth Courtyard Hotel in Berkshire. Estimates range from £250-800 each with the
example pictured, Dutch Winter Scene (308), pitched at £300-600.
Contact 0118 971 2420
■ historicalandcollectable.com
Right: Jubilee are offering
four original pen and ink
drawings and an engraving by
the Bohemian artist Heinrich
Hönich (1873-1957) in their
May 13 sale in Pewsey,
Wiltshire. Hönich is well
known in Germany and the
Czech Republic as an illustrator
and printmaker, with works in
the collections of the Modern
Art Gallery in Prague and
the Staatliche Graphische
Sammlung in Munich – though may perhaps be better known for his posters advertising the
‘Hindenberg’ Zeppelin (1914). These four drawings were originally bought by the vendor’s parents
from the estate of a couple who had moved to England from northern Austria at the outbreak of the
Second World War. Pictured is Der Dichter (The Poet), signed H. Hönich 1905, 16 x 12in (40 x 31cm),
estimated at £300-500.
Contact 01672 562012
■ jubileeauctions.com
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Lot 119: A Chinese two colour cinnabar lacquer tray and
hardwood stand, Qianlong period (1735-1796)
£3,000-£5,000
Contact:
Jeremy Lamond
Bowmen Way, Battleﬁeld
Shrewsbury SY4 3DR
T: 01743 450 700
E: ﬁ[email protected]
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20/21 fair promises Blitz
Anna Brady
reports
email: [email protected]
tel: 020 3725 5526
■ 75th anniversary of bombing
campaign is an opportunity to
focus on London’s deﬁance
THIS year marks the 75th
anniversary of the Blitz,
so a ﬁtting time to reveal
the works of an artist who
recorded Londoners as they
adapted, often ingeniously, to
adversity.
Above: local Buxton dealers Steve
Bentley Decorative Arts will show a
range of Arts & Crafts pieces at the Buxton
Antiques Fair, including this oak ﬁreside
chair designed and made by Arthur Simpson
of Kendal (1857-1922). The c.1925 chair is
priced at £2950.
Buxton is moving
with the times
THE annual Buxton Antiques Fair at the
Pavilion Gardens in the Derbyshire spa
town is a stalwart of the UK’s antiques
fair scene in the Midlands and north.
Now in its sixth decade, Cooper
Fairs have run the event since 2009 and
several exhibitors have served more than
20 years here, including furniture dealer
Peter Bunting, ceramics specialist Roger
de Ville, and jeweller Sheldon Shapiro.
The 51st Buxton Antiques Fair runs
from May 14-17 and these old-timers
(I’ll be shot for calling them that) will be
joined by eight debutants as the event,
historically an inherently traditional
preserve, moves towards including more
20th century material – a familiar story
nowadays.
That said, Guy Dennler Antiques,
a specialist in 18th and 19th century
English furniture, and Cantelo Antiques,
with period and decorative furniture, are
among those taking part for the ﬁrst time
with traditional stock.
Other newcomers include: Antiques
by Design, with an eclectic mix of
antique, 20th century and Contemporary
design; Carnes Fine Art (19th and 20th
century paintings and period furniture);
Lynways (vintage and retro glass and
ceramics); Peter McCarthy Antiques
(silver); Richwood Fine Art (19th
and 20th century paintings) and The
Antiques Bazaar (British art pottery, Art
Nouveau silver, glass and jewellery).
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At an auction 23 years ago Agi Katz
of the Boundary Gallery came across
a portfolio of work by Olga Lehmann
(1912-2001), a chance encounter that
spawned a collection that will be shown
in public for the ﬁrst time at the 20/21
International Art Fair from May 14-17 at
the Royal College of Art, London.
The collection is previewed in detail
below, but ﬁrst to the fair itself, now in
its ninth year and run by Gay Hutson
and Angela ‘Bunny’ Wynn as an
adjunct to their 20/21 British Art Fair, held
each September at the same venue.
The essential difference between these
two events is that dealers may exhibit
work by international as well as British
artists at the May fair, dating either from
the 20th or 21st century. As a result, it
features pieces in all media by artists
from France, Japan, Russia, Serbia and
South Africa, to name a few.
As Gay points out when talking about
the fair, it is “international in content,
more than international in terms of
galleries coming from other countries”,
and that differentiates it from the Art15
fair at nearby Olympia. Now in its third
Right: St Johns
Wood Church
Xmas Party by
Olga Lehmann
(1912-2001),
1940, ink and
watercolour,
signed, dated
and inscribed,
£985 from The
Boundary
Gallery.
Right: Still Life with Pears by Duncan Grant (18851978), oil on board, 22 x 16in (56 x 41cm), passed by
descent from the artist, priced at £12,500 from The
Court Gallery at 20/21 International Art Fair.
Right: Galloping
Horse, 2014, by Iain
Nutting is made
out of reclaimed
scrap metal and
stands over 2m
high. The Rebecca
Hossack Gallery
have priced it at
£24,000 for the
20/21 International
Art Fair.
year, Art15 moves from a late February
slot to May 21-23 this year, the week
after 20/21, but Art15’s exhibitor list is
dominated by galleries based outside the
UK, chieﬂy those from Asia.
Gay tells me that London’s Jealous
Gallery, a new exhibitor at 20/21 this
year, are the only exhibitor standing at
both fairs to her knowledge.
“When the new dates for Art15 were
announced, I did think this could be a
conﬂict for a handful of dealers, but this
turned out not to be the case. The two
fairs appeal to different audiences; you
could say that 20/21 is international with
a small ‘i’, while Art15 has a far more
global appeal. However, London, being
the amazing cultural hub that it is, has
room for both.
“Art15 in fact also clashes with the
new Photo London fair at Somerset
House – lucky Londoners!”
In 2014, for whatever reason, the
20/21 International Art Fair was a little
sticky in terms of business for some,
but that doesn’t seem to have deterred
exhibitors and this year the organisers
had no problem ﬁlling the 60 stands.
OLGA LEHMANN (1912-2001)
Born in Chile to a French father and a Scottish
mother, Olga Lehmann showed artistic ﬂair
from an early age and, at 16, moved to England
after winning a scholarship to study at the
Slade under Henry Tonks.
She specialised in theatre design, taught by
Vladimir Polunin, and portraiture under Allan
Gwynne-Jones. During the 1930s she gained a
reputation for both.
The Whitechapel Gallery included her work in
the exhibition Mural and Decorative Painting in
1935 and the Tate Gallery in its Mural Painting
in Great Britain show in 1939.
During the Second World War, Olga was
commissioned to paint more than 100 murals
depicting British life, such as scenes of sporting
events and fairgrounds, to brighten the
drab walls of the Bristol Aircraft Company’s
underground canteen for workers in Corsham,
which later became the Burlington Complex.
After the war, she became known as a costume
designer for American TV and ﬁlm, and painted
the portraits of Charlton Heston and Marlene
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and glitz
Alongside Jealous Gallery, there are
eight other new exhibitors including
the UK galleries: Blondes Fine Art
(Modern and Contemporary British art);
Goulden & Thomas (Modern British);
Manning Fine Art (vintage posters,
architectural drawings and artworks of
Oxford and Cambridge); Eleven and a
Half (Contemporary works from artists
based in west Cornwall); Mayne Gallery
and Lopez-Grey Gallery, both with
Contemporary art. There are also two
new galleries from Dublin – Gormleys
Fine Art and The Doorway Gallery –
and one from Paris, Arlev Art.
Uri Geller, the spoon-bending
phenomenon who is also an avid
collector and artist, will open the fair at
noon on Thursday, May 14.
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Dietrich among others, but it is a collection of
her less glamorous work recording the Blitz
that will be revealed at the 20/21 International
Art Fair next week, marking the 75th
anniversary of the bombing campaign.
The Blitz affected her personally – a bomb
destroyed her studio ﬂat in Hampstead and she
lost much of her early work as a result.
A skilled illustrator, Olga made quick,
atmospheric, on-the-spot watercolours
recording the destruction wreaked on the
city and of Londoners sheltering in the
Underground, stoically continuing to celebrate
New Year’s Eve and other festivities.
When Agi Katz of the Boundary Gallery found
a portfolio of Olga’s work by chance at an
auction nearly a quarter of a century ago, she
had never heard of the artist.
But she tracked Olga down, they became
friends and Agi accumulated a collection of her
work, a group of which she will now offer for
sale for the ﬁrst time at the fair.
Some 20 works on paper will be on display,
with prices between £500 and £1000.
Right: Oliver Hoare acquired
this 3rd century Gandhara grey
schist head of the Buddha from
Afghanistan in the 1960s from
Oxus, David Lindhal’s legendery
antiques shop in the King’s Road.
In the ‘60s, while Oliver was still
working at Christie’s, David would
ask him to clear the ﬁnds from
his travels through UK Customs
for him. In the very ﬁrst shipment
was this fragment of a head and
Oliver was transﬁxed: “I knew
little about Gandhara art at the
time, but it seemed the perfect
incarnation of Greek ideals of
beauty, entwined with the Indian
embodiment of spiritual beauty as
reﬂected in human beings.” The
head is currently reserved.
Hoare displays his diverse hoard
spanning 5000 years of history
THE collection of an enthusiast with a truly eclectic eye is something to behold.
One such collector is Oliver Hoare, who founded Christie’s Islamic art
department, leaving in 1975 to become an independent art dealer specialising
in Islamic art.
Now he puts his own diverse collection of 250 objects and works of art from
the past 5000 years on display, in an exhibition titled Every Object Tells a Story,
from May 6 to June 26 at 33 Fitzroy Square, in London’s Bloomsbury.
“The point of the exhibition, as its title announces, is to celebrate the
fascinating and often peculiar stories attached to works of art,” says Oliver.
“The criterion for what is presented has little to do with the value of objects,
and therefore it differs from the more conventional ‘Cabinets of Curiosities’.
Nor does it necessarily reﬂect the current canon of what is seen as beautiful or
culturally signiﬁcant, although there are signiﬁcant and beautiful works of art by
anyone’s standards. The objects will be displayed like a private collection in the
magniﬁcent Robert Adam rooms at 33 Fitzroy Square, once home to the Omega
Workshop.”
He hopes that “anyone with an interest in history, art, or a good and unusual
story” will visit the show and each piece in the catalogue is accompanied by
often amusing anecdotes from Oliver. Though he resents talking about prices,
describing them as “like the pornography of the art market – understandable
but unhealthy”, most items are for sale, at prices from £500 to over £1m.
Broadly, the show encompasses antiquities, musical instruments, natural
history specimens, items relating to the history of magic and a mix of paintings,
works of paper and other objects, ranging from opium tweezers and a marble
baboon from the Barberini Cinema in Rome to engravings by Dürer, Hollar and
Rembrandt and a portrait of the Begum Samru by an Indian pupil of Zoffany.
Highlights include the 3rd century Gandhara head of the Buddha, above,
the 13th Dalai Lama’s double bass, a 16th century anthology of poetry that
belonged to the Mughal emperors and an Eskimo baby’s blanket.
■ everyobjecttellsastory.com
Summer fair slot for Asian art promotion
FOLLOWING their group stand at Art Antiques London last summer, Asian Art
in London will again create a pavilion at a summer fair in London, this time at
Masterpiece London, from June 25 to July 1 at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
Some 20 dealers from Asian Art in London will exhibit antique and Contemporary
Asian art within the pavilion to promote the autumn event, scheduled from November
5-14 this year, to a potentially new audience.
Asian Art in London chief executive Sarah Percy-Davis said it was a ”great
opportunity“ to raise AAL’s proﬁle and attract a new audience. She also thanked
Richard Thompson Insurance for sponsoring the initiative.
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uestions
MATTHEW HALL
Panter & Hall, Contemporary,
Modern British and 20th century
Scottish art, Pall Mall, London
■ panterandhall.com
1 How long have you been dealing? 25 years
working for galleries, the last 15 with Tiffany Panter
in our own business.
2 Do you do any fairs? Yes as many as will have
us (including the 20/21 International Art Fair, May 1417). Art dealers at all levels have become unhealthily
reliant on them. The promise of thousands of
potential new clients is intoxicating and fairs have
become quite an addiction, akin to gambling, and
although the odds (in the form of disproportionate
costs) are stacked against us, we cling to the blind
hope that the next stand will hit the jackpot.
3 What was your ﬁrst job? Gallery boy for John
Noott in the Cotswolds.
4 Best and worst thing about being a dealer?
Best, the people I work with and almost without
exception our artists. Worst, artists who don’t
understand the beneﬁts that a professional gallery
brings to them. Although, thinking about it, worse
are those people who think they are artists and can’t
understand why their genius isn’t evident to you.
5 Best buy and biggest mistake? Best buy, not
ﬁnancially so, but for pure pleasure, a very sensitive
drawing of a Glasgow shipbuilder by Stanley Spencer,
bought from fellow 20/21 exhibitor Simon Hilton
at the fair some years ago. Biggest mistake, the
occasional painting bought from an online auction
website, when I’ve been too lazy to view properly
and bought regardless, thinking I knew better.
6 What key trends have you noticed at the
moment? Clients are increasingly comfortable
buying direct from the website, not that the physical
interaction will ever be wholly replaced, but some
small hope to those dealers being squeezed daily
by distorted commercial property prices in central
London. Also, dealers turning to auctioneering on a
small scale to supplement existing gallery business,
a good innovative idea and satisfying to see the
reverse of auctioneers playing at dealing.
7 Biggest threat to the trade at the moment?
A growing number of charlatans opening galleries,
particularly online. The internet is a fabulous new
frontier for retail operations and in other industries
their codes and practices have transferred to the web
successfully. However, as the art world is an entirely
unregulated industry, its internet manifestation is
like the Wild West. It falls to trade organisations
such as LAPADA to lead the way online and create a
well-policed safe environment for clients to buy with
conﬁdence.
8 Guiltiest pleasure? A classic Manhattan at
Lassco’s Brunswick House Café in Vauxhall on the
way home from work.
9 Any advice for those starting out in the
trade? Specialise early in a ﬁeld you genuinely
enjoy, aim at the highest end of the market you are
ﬁnancially able to achieve. Try and avoid unnecessary
external ﬁnancing – except for the obligatory
overdraft!
10 Alternative career? Secondhand art book
dealer Marcus Campbell has stolen my life.
If you are a dealer and would like to be
featured in 10 Questions
email [email protected]
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A fair view of CADA at Blenheim
Right: “This year the fair was the best ever and it goes from strength to strength,” said John Howard, chairman
of the Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association, of CADA’s fair at Blenheim Palace from April 16-19.
“The visitor feedback was amazingly positive.”
He added that CADA have had two membership applications from dealers since the event, which is now in its
fourth year and ﬁelded 24 exhibitors, plus (for the ﬁrst time) ﬁve guest exhibitors from the BADA.
Around 4000 people visited the fair, mostly British but with some Chinese, Indian, American and Japanese.
Derek Newman of Newman Fine Art said he’d had his best sales in four years of exhibiting at the fair, and
they included this view of The Town Hall and North & South Bridge Street, Banbury Oxon by William Frederick
Austin (1833-99). The watercolour and pen and ink, signed and dated 1863, sold for in the region of £2000.
The next CADA Fair at Blenheim Palace is from April 21-24, 2016.
Marchant celebrate 90
years with two shows
IN May, Marchant, the London specialists
in Chinese porcelain and works of art, will
celebrate 90 years and four generations in
the business.
Samuel Sydney Marchant (1897-1975)
founded the family ﬁrm in 1925, opening
a shop in Chancery Lane, dealing initially in
arms and armour, paintings and European
porcelain alongside Asian art.
In 1952, the business moved west to
120 Kensington Church Street, where
they have remained ever since and where,
from May 7-22, they will hold two 90th
anniversary exhibitions, Qing Porcelain
from Private Collections and Chinese Export
Porcelain.
The Qing porcelain catalogue includes
50 pieces, of which 22 are mark and
period. The highlight is an Imperial fencai
lantern form vase and cover from an
English private collection, which is in
perfect condition.
The catalogue also features ten pieces
from the Professor Robert de Strycker
collection, formed in Belgium between the
late 1930s and 1950s.
The Chinese Export Porcelain catalogue
is the ﬁrst Marchant exhibition devoted
solely to the subject and concentrates on
18th century porcelain for the western
market. The ﬁrm recently opened a new
gallery at 101 Kensington Church Street to
concentrate on the subject, overseen by
Natalie Marchant, the fourth generation
of the family.
Commenting on the market in his
catalogue introduction, Richard Marchant
writes: “The Chinese export porcelain
market was very strong from the 1960s to
the 1990s, the main buyers being from the
USA, Portugal and Brazil.
“In 1997, there was a major change in
the market, when Hong Kong went back to
the jurisdiction of mainland China. Chinese
mainland buyers started to enter the world
market with their focus mainly on Chinesetaste pieces. From that time prices rose
dramatically.
“We believe this had a negative effect
on the Chinese export-porcelain market.
Subsequently, following market trends,
major auction houses have tended to
catalogue exportware pieces in minor sales.
“This has given dealers and collectors
the opportunity to source and collect some
excellent pieces at prices of 20-30 years
ago. Not only have the prices declined, but
also availability of ﬁne, top-quality pieces,
has increased.”
Hence the decision to open the new
space and expand in the ﬁeld.
The highlight of the exhibition is the pair
of famille verte European ﬁgures, pictured
left, reunited in the exhibition after being
apart for more than 70 years.
The gentleman was published in
Marchant’s 2007 catalogue of new
acquisitions, having come from a German
private collection and been illustrated in
Von Walter Bondy’s 1923 book Kang-Hsi.
In 1995, the lady appeared in the
catalogue of the exhibition of Khalil
Rizk’s collection at The Chinese Porcelain
Company in New York, and Marchant later
reunited the pair.
■ marchantasianart.com
Left: pair of Kangxi period (1662-1722) famille
verte European ﬁgures, both 8½in (23cm) high,
priced in the region of £85,000 from Marchant.
Nursery for
new talent
IT’S heartening to hear of someone
who takes up painting with gusto and
tenacity later in life, even more so if
they manage to turn their creative
urge into a commercial success.
British-born Jenny Jackson only
started painting 15 years ago in her mid
60s and is now established in South
Africa, where she lives and works.
She is pictured above with one
of her paintings at the Chelsea Art
Fair, which ran at the Chelsea Old
Town Hall in London from April
16-19, where The Russell Gallery
from Putney showed her work for
the ﬁrst time to a UK audience, to
much interest. The gallery will now
exhibit Jenny’s work at the 20/21
International Art Fair in London from
May 14-17 – see preview on page 28.
Chelsea fair director Ben Cooper
was pleased with the event, where
there was a high percentage of threedimensional work this time: “We
had a very busy start and saw steady
visitor numbers over the next three
days and several buyers returning
during the typical Chelsea rush on
Sunday afternoon.”
Other galleries also launched
the work of new artists at the fair,
including Carina Haslam Art, who
exhibited the wildlife sculptures of
Elliot Channer for the ﬁrst time, and
Neville Contemporary Art, who
were showing sculptural wire wall
work by Kue King, who was born in
the Philippines but grew up in the US.
Edenbridge Galleries prepare for ﬂower power
THE Edenbridge Galleries come over all
ﬂoral for their Spring Open Weekend
from May 9-10.
Themed around A Walk through
the Garden of Eden (see what they did
there?), the event focuses on how English
art and antiques have incorporated ﬂoral
design.
Two talks will take place. The ﬁrst
is with garden designer Roger Platts,
winner of numerous gold medals at
Chelsea Flower Show, on Creating a
Chelsea Flower Show Garden at 2.30pm
on May 9. The second features Lennox
Cato, owner of the galleries, on ﬂoral
marquetry and how inlays were used to
embellish furniture in the 18th and 19th
centuries, at 11.30am on May 10.
Admission is free to both talks but
arrive early as seating is limited.
■ edenbridgegalleries.com
Above: Roses and Chrysanthemums by William
Jabez Muckley (1829-1905), watercolour,
2ft 3in x 2ft 6in (69 x 76cm), £9500 from
Lennox Cato at Edenbridge Galleries.
Antiques Trade Gazette
ROBERT and Josyane Young have traded
from the same unmodernised Battersea
shop for nearly 40 years. As it started to
show its age, with a rotten lintel over the
shop front and an ailing roof, they had to
take action.
So, says Robert, “It was time to consider
our future, either sell up and work in a
different way or invest, against the current
trend, in our retail ‘high street’ premises
and work to expand our footfall further,
gallery trade and develop the potential
offered by a central (relatively) London
exhibition space”.
They chose the revamp and, after
the grim task of emptying the whole
building, overhauled it, just (and only just)
in time for their annual Exhibition of Folk
Art from May 7-16.
Robert asks visitors to take them as
they ﬁnd them as they may still be reinstalling in the ﬁrst few days.
While internet sales have increased
markedly over the past years, Robert is
a ﬁrm believer in the antiques shop as a
dedicated space in which to present works,
creating ‘still lifes’ with groups of objects,
in order for potential buyers to experience
the sensory pleasure of these pieces and so
fully understand them.
The same RYA atmosphere and style,
however, will remain, with the cosy log ﬁre
greeting visitors in the colder months, and
Robert plans to hand-paint the window
display with the same design he created for
the 1991 British Interior Design Exhibition.
Last summer, the British Folk Art
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Robert gets to grip with the
changing picture of folk art
Left: Prospect of Littlecote Home Farm, a “rare
and signiﬁcant” English naive school oil on
canvas work dating to c.1720 in its original
period frame, 2ft 11in x 4ft 3in (88cm x 1.28m),
priced at a ﬁve-ﬁgure sum.
exhibition at Tate Britain widened the
audience for what had been seen as a
niche interest, though its impact upon the
market has been hard to measure, says
Robert, and he had noticed a growth in
interest before the exhibition.
“I think that it certainly helped establish
that there was a merit and quality to ‘art’
from outside the mainstream narrative of
our art history and it really was a landmark
exhibition, for this reason alone, if nothing
else,” he adds.
He has noticed that more people are
familiar with the terms folk, primitive,
naive and vernacular, and seem to “get
it”, with tastes moving away from the
traditional to the more individual and
eccentric: “They like crusty old paint and
wonky perspective and unusual forms and
now naturally gravitate to them with less
nervous curiosity and more conﬁdence
than before.”
However, rising interest also means
increasing competition to buy good things:
“We now struggle to ﬁnd honest works,
untouched and original, with integrity and
spirit. We and the market appreciate works
in original condition, raw, real and sensitive.
Of course they have largely disappeared.”
Yet still things do pop up, enough
to stock Robert Young Antiques’ 42nd
catalogue of folk art with 52 typically
quirky pieces of folk art and vernacular
furniture, ranging from a group of
sculptural Windsor chairs through treen to
tavern signs and naive paintings, a selection
of which are pictured here.
■ robertyoungantiques.com
Left: “Bright, colourful, uninhibited, bold: all the
good things about naive art” is how Robert Young
describes this Swedish Bonad or Kurbitz School
painting of a horse and rider, entitled I Travel to my
Little Friend. The c.1830 water and body colour piece
on hand-made paper, 20 x 23in (51 x 58cm), is priced
at £4500.
Right: these two c.1825 miniature dummy boards
by George Smart, ‘The Tailor of Frant’, were included
in the 2014 British Folk Art show at Tate Britain and
are currently the only known surviving examples of
Smart’s work in this form. The blackbird and cat,
each standing 7¾in (20cm) high, are made in a
collage of velvet and mixed media on shaped pine
boards and priced at £3200 each.
May date for Galloway at Arley Hall
Left: the ﬁrst of Galloway Fairs’ two art
and antiques fairs at Arley Hall, near Knutsford
in Cheshire, runs from May 8-10. Held in
the Tudor barn and the hall itself, there are
30 exhibitors including antiques dealers
Lancaster House and Adrian Harris
Antiques, picture dealers Plumb’s Fine Art
and the jewellers Plaza and Billy Rae.
Shown here is a stylised German porcelain
vase decorated with a design in silver overlay
against a turquoise background by Friedrich
Wilhelm Spahr & Co, c.1950, priced at £1195
from John Newton Antiques at Arley Hall.
■ gallowayfairs.co.uk
The Annual Buxton
Antiques Fair
at The
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Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6BE
Thursday 14th Sunday 17th May
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Fri & Sat 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm
Admission £5
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DAVID LAY FRICS
124 & 125
2106
May ANTIQUES
14 & 15 AUCTION
370
518
526
893
124 Louis Vuitton.
166 Sandringham
shooting tally, royal
letters: Edward VII,
Pss Alexandra, Duke
of Cambridge etc.
370 Napoleonic
document, signed
by Napoleon and
four ministers.
526 Chinese jade.
2079
2698
894
518 Chinese plates
European subject.
893 Leach tiles.
894 Maltby pot
811 Agate ware cat.
2109
166
2183
811
2079 Porringer 1711
Brittania standard.
2106 Table centre.
Elkington.
2109 Knox spoon.
2183 Charles II royal
oak loyalty cup.
2698 Fine miniature
on pearl bracelet.
Viewing: Saturday
May 9 th 9 am -1 pm
Wednesday May 13 th 9 am - 7 pm
Auction day morning 9am -10am
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13th May 2015 at 10am
Fine Sale
Tuesday 12th May at 10am
Viewing
Saturday 9th May 9am-12 noon
Monday 11th May 2pm-8pm
Tuesday 12th May 10am - 4pm
& 8.30am on the morning of
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Lot 428. Diamond ring, c.1920
Est. £3,000-4,000
309. Fine verge pocket watch in a
consular rock crystal case, c. 1750,
signed J.J. Bourdillat, Paris
Est. £2,500-3,500
320. Gentleman’s stainless steel wristwatch,
signed Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer Super
Precision, serial no. 371413, ref. 5504
Est. £1,500-2,500
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available via
Lot 311. Fine Swiss open face detached
lever pocket watch, signed Duchene
Peyrot & Co, Geneva, no. 55438
Est. £700-900
On View: 8th May 9am-5pm, 9th May 10am-1pm
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Antiques Trade Gazette
Approximately 300 lots to include luxury wristwatches
featuring brands such as Raymond Weil, Tag Heuer & Omega
Jewellery to include diamond rings, chains, bracelets & earrings
Full catalogue and bidding now online.
Public viewing: Wednesday 6th of May, 11am to 1pm
Online auction ends: Friday 8th of May from 12pm
Raymond Weil
Allegro
Tag Heuer
Pro Link SEL
Rado
Diastar Jubile
Oris
Titanium Diver
Omega
Automatic Dynamic
Omega
Two Tone Art Deco Dial
Excellent Cut
Diamond Solitaire Ring
18ct Yellow Gold
Diamond Trilogy Ring
18ct White Gold
Diamond Cluster Ring
18ct White Gold
Diamond Ring
Emerald and Diamond
Brooch set in 18 ct White Gold
18 ct Yellow Gold Ring
with Lines of Diamonds
James Shipstone House, Radford Road,
New Basford, Nottingham. NG7 7EA
johnpye.co.uk
Saturday 16th May 2015
“A Collection of
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Garden Statuary,
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art market
Why she’s not just a
pretty face to buyers
Left: Portrait of a Lady by John Michael Wright
– £16,500 at Lawrences of Crewkerne.
■ Sale illustrates the key
factors inﬂuencing demand for
historical portraits today
Right: this portrait of a lady, traditionally
identiﬁed as Lady Arbella Stuart and catalogued
as ‘Circle of William Larkin’ sold for £39,000 at
Lawrences.
Alex Capon
reports
PURVEYORS of Old Master
portraits are easy to spot at
an auction viewing.
They’re normally the ones scouring the
saleroom with UV torches looking to see
if anything interesting might lie beneath
the surface of a painting, assessing if a
work is ‘right’ or whether it might yield
something better than catalogued.
UV light exposes retouching as dark
blotches, indicating how much of a
picture is original and allowing viewers
to speculate on what might be unveiled
after treatment from a conservator.
The latest ﬁne art sale at Lawrences
(22% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne
sparked a lot of such interest as a host
of portraits from different periods came
up, most of them from separate sources.
The pictures appeared on April 17 of a
three-day event.
One portrait in particular prompted
a good deal of inspection. “People
spent 20 minutes up a ladder looking
at this picture,” said Lawrences’ picture
specialist Richard Kay. “It was a striking
portrait but had undergone a lot of
restoration. People wanted to see how
much of it was original.”
The work in question, titled Portrait of
a Lady and attributed to John Michael
Wright (1617-94), was a large painting
of a young and ﬂamboyantly dressed
subject. It had previously been in a
private collection in Madrid.
The 4ft 7in x 3ft 11in (1.39 x 1.21m) oil
on canvas reﬂected the baroque style of
the painter who spent a decade in Rome
before returning to England under the
patronage of Charles II. The artist had a
distinctive technique, using a coloured
ground over the canvas and, as the
DEALER’S VIEW
LONDON dealer Miles Barton told ATG that picking
out which portraits to buy among the vast number
available can be like “walking through a mineﬁeld”.
“Portraiture is part of what British art is all about,”
he told ATG. “The volume of artists in this country
means there is a huge supply out there. The dealer’s
task is to recognise good hands, pluck works from
obscurity, do your research and then present them as
pictures of note.”
Mr Barton worked as a specialist for Phillips and
Sotheby’s before becoming a dealer in 17th to 19th
century period paintings. Since 2001 he has focused
increasingly on historic portraiture, which he describes
as a “wide market” but with “buoyant pockets”.
composition developed, would apply a
mixed palette of subtle colours working
up to a lustrous effect on the surface.
In ideal condition, a fully-attributed
portrait of an attractive subject in this
scale might be worth £30,000 – perhaps
up to £50,000 with an identiﬁed sitter.
This was probably why at least eight
parties came forward against the £700010,000 estimate.
The vendor had accepted the lower
“There tends to be an assumption that buyers
today would not look for paintings of long-dead
people to hang on their walls. But in last ten years
I’ve found it surprising how much interest exists with
people buying for many different reasons.
“Some people are decorating houses with period
pieces; others buy for historical reasons and then
sometimes a buyer might have a special link to a
portrait through a family connection to a sitter.”
Mr Barton also noted a great deal of institutional
interest in portraits. He recently sold a picture to an
Oxford college which depicted a colourful character
from their history. He traced the work, he said, by
“digging it out of obscurity” and then researching it
thoroughly.
pitch partly because of the picture’s
condition. It had been relined and
retouched, the stretchers replaced and
the paint was thin in places (including
to the sitter’s face); probably the result
of overcleaning. While overpaint can be
removed, abraded areas are less easily
repaired.
This being the case, and with no
details emerging about the sitter, bidders
were primarily attracted to it as a highquality and distinctive furnishing picture.
Decoration is an important factor in the
portraits market and this work had plenty
to recommend it in terms of the subject’s
beauty, the exuberant costume and the
canvas size.
One dealer told ATG that a picture
might look like “the battleﬁeld of the
Somme” under UV light, but sometimes
this should not distract from what might
be a “good picture by a good name with
some acceptable cosmetic restoration”.
A private Irish buyer fended off the
trade at £16,500 – among the highest
prices for Wright at auction outside
London.
Mr Kay said that the focus of buyers
in the portraits market is two-fold,
with “age, period feel and decorative
impact” bringing demand up to a certain
level before “artist, sitter, quality and
provenance” take over.
“Research deﬁnitely yields results,” he said. “It is
the main factor for a dealer, making a picture more
commercial. You can’t just put your feet up; you need
to research the sitter, artist and provenance – these
provide the hooks needed for a sale.
“I ﬁnd it a constant learning process and you
deﬁnitely develop greater knowledge as you handle
works and look at how artists painted. Sometimes it’s
worth seeking assistance from others to conﬁrm your
opinions and, with major works, it is all about getting
the right people to endorse it.”
Mr Barton works closely with art and antiques
dealer Timothy Langston and has pictures on view at
the Langston Gallery on London’s Pimlico Road.
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“This work had plenty to
recommend it in terms of
the subject’s beauty, the
exuberant costume and the
size of the canvas”
Buyers seeking works to hang on
their walls often look for “pictures of
someone who looks like good company”
– no doubt explaining why pretty young
women or dashing red-coated soldiers
tend to make more than unknown
squires or clergymen. “And if a sitter is
also known to have position in history,
this makes it even more rewarding for the
owner,” said Mr Kay.
Portraits can often be difﬁcult to
gauge, however, which gives dealers the
edge when it comes to works requiring
more research. The highest-priced picture
at Lawrences was a case in point.
An earlier portrait of a lady, the sitter
was traditionally identiﬁed as Lady
Arbella Stuart (1575-1615), the cousin of
James I who had a signiﬁcant claim to the
throne herself.
Last exhibited publicly in 1931 when it
was attributed to Paul van Somer (c.15771621), the Dorset vendor’s family had
bought it for £400 at Sotheby’s in the
early 1960s.
Van Somer, a Flemish painter who
became a leading painter at the English
court, is credited with a good number of
unsigned Jacobean portraits, while works
depicting unknown female sitters are
often said to depict Lady Arbella.
Although a label on the frame
attributed the picture to Federico Zuccaro
(c.1540-1609) – another artist who came
to England but returned to Italy by about
1589 – Mr Kay said this 400-year-old
painting had more of an English feel and,
after considering a number of names, he
felt that William Larkin (c.1580-1619)
was the best match.
Spanish royalty or just a ﬁne face?
Right: this intriguing portrait of a gentleman in proﬁle attracted strong interest against a £500-700
estimate at Busby Fine Art (19% buyer’s premium) on April 16.
The 5½ x 4in (14 x 10cm) oil on copper was unsigned but had the date 1588 inscribed to the top left
and right, as well as Aetat (aged) 46 bottom left and right. This indicates the sitter was born in either
1541 or 1542. It came from a deceased estate in Kensington and had belonged to a French lady who
came to England from Paris 50 years ago.
The auctioneers thought the subject could be a member of Spanish royalty (1588 was the year of the
Armada), although separate speculation suggested a Dutch hand.
It was a rare and naturalistic Old Master and, with multiple phone lines booked, eventually sold at
£7000 to the trade.
The subject had a likeness to another
portrait generally acknowledged as
depicting Lady Arbella now in the North
Carolina Museum of Art, ascribed to John
de Critz (c.1551-1642).
However, Mr Kay also noted that
another candidate as the sitter was James
I’s wife, Anne of Denmark (portraits of
the two auburn-haired women are often
confused).
Lady Arbella sponsored Larkin to
become a freeman of the Painter Stainer
Company in 1606, underscoring the link.
Around half a dozen portraits
purporting to be Lady Arbella have
emerged in the last 20 years, one of
these also attributed to Larkin sold
for £15,000 at Phillips in London in
December 1986, although it was around
half the size of the 3ft 8in x 2ft 9in
(1.13m x 82cm) oil on panel here.
Catalogued as ‘Circle of William
Larkin (c.1580-1619)’, the picture at
Lawrences carried a guide of £10,00015,000. Generally in good condition with
scattered retouching and craquelure,
it had some losses mainly to the
background consistent with its age.
Six interested parties booked phone
lines for this lot, the strength of interest
partly down to its decorative appeal –
the good size, distinctive ﬁgure and the
embroidered attire with green peapods,
red carnations and striking ribbons in her
hair – and partly due to speculation over
the artist and sitter.
Bidding rose to over double the top
estimate before it sold to a London dealer
at £39,000.
The following lot was another portrait
which came from a separate source but
also drew competition, albeit a bit more
limited, selling just shy of top estimate.
continued on page 36
Above: Painting 1939 by Ben Nicholson,
oil on canvas stretched over wood panel,
18in x 2ft (47 x 60cm) – £320,000.
An international
Modernist
Anna Brady
reports
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) is often held
up as the poster boy of British Modernist
abstraction. But to consider him solely in the
context of his ‘Britishness’ renders in him
rather provincial and neglects the fact that
he was a player on the international scene
too. Nicholson travelled widely and engaged
with such progressive movements as Cubism,
Minimalism and Arte Povera which all
impacted on his work.
Mayfair gallery Connaught Brown’s
imminent exhibition Ben Nicholson:
Landscape into Abstraction (May 21 to June
18) aims to set Nicholson’s work against
the backdrop of international abstract
movements, in particular the work of the
Italian informal artists and the Zero Group
from Holland and Germany. Looking closely
at a selection of just 10 works, including
drawings and paintings, it concentrates on
his development from the 1930s to the late
1970s, a period through which he lived in
London, Cornwall and, from 1958 until 1971,
Switzerland.
Nicholson started out as a painter of
traditional still lifes and landscapes, and the
exhibition includes some of his skilful still life
drawings, which he never totally abandoned
in favour of abstraction, as witnessed by
March 1960 (S. Coffee pot).
However frequent trips to Paris in the
1920s and 1930s, where he met Mondrian,
Braque, Brancusi and other artists, caused
him to turn increasingly towards abstraction.
In 1933 he joined the group AbstractionCréation, alongside Helion, Mondrian,
Herbin and Arp, becoming a link between
abstraction in mainland Europe and the UK.
A highlight is Painting, 1939, pictured
above, evidence of Nicholson and
Mondrian’s close relationship at the time,
working in neighbouring studios in London.
The show sets such geometric paintings
from the 30s against Nicholson’s late painted
hardboard reliefs of the ’60s and ’70s, the
surface carved into using razor blades and
chisels, a nod to both the newly emerging
Italian Arte Povera movement and the
German artist group ZERO.
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art market
portraits at lawrences
continued from page 35
Above: a portrait of George Nugent-TempleGrenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham,
catalogued as ‘Circle of Robert Hunter’, that
made £8800 at Lawrences.
The painting depicted George NugentTemple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of
Buckingham (1753-1813), the statesman
who became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
and who was the second son of Prime
Minister George Grenville.
The picture had been kept at the
family residence Stowe House (now
Stowe school) until the Buckinghamshire
estate was sold in 1921.
The 4ft 1in x 3ft 2in (1.24m x 97cm)
oil on canvas was part of the enormous
18-day auction conducted on the
premises by Herbert Jackson-Stops. It was
purchased there by a descendant of the
sitter who was the grandfather of the
vendor at Lawrences.
Although unattributed at the Stowe
sale, it was later ascribed to John
Hoppner (1758-1810) who painted
other members of the Grenville family.
However, there is no record for Hoppner
having ever painted the marquess and
another full-length version of this picture
in the National Portrait Gallery remains
unattributed.
Various names have been suggested
over the years – John Keyse Sherwin,
Francis Robert West and, less plausibly,
Benjamin West. Here, it was felt the best
candidate was a hand associated with
Robert Hunter (ﬂ.1752-1803).
Hunter painted the marquess in 1783
wearing the robes of the Order of St
Patrick, which was not too far removed
from the current picture in terms of
composition and insignia. However, this
picture appears to date from around
ﬁve years later during the sitter’s second
tenure of ofﬁce as Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland (the subject is shown wearing
peer’s robes and the insignia of the Order
of the Knight of the Garter as well as St
Patrick).
The auctioneers felt it was likely a
studio copy and it was offered as ‘Circle
of Robert Hunter’. The estimate was
£6000-9000.
With interest from other living
descendants of the sitter, a number of
bidders emerged on the day and it was
knocked down at £8800. The work was
bought by Stowe school, meaning the
picture will now be going back to its
original home.
£98,000 Greek gift for Sherborne vendor
ONE of the biggest sleepers in the
UK regions so far this year emerged
at Charterhouse (19.5% buyer’s
premium) of Sherborne, Dorset, on April
24 when this head and shoulders of a
saint sold for many multiples of its £300400 estimate. Drawing long competition,
it was hammered down at £98,000.
Catalogued as ‘Follower of El Greco’,
it came from a private vendor who
inherited it in 1977. The 9 x 7¼in (23 x
18.5cm) oil on canvas had been stored
in an attic for the last ten years and was
in reasonable condition, having been
cleaned and relined, although there was
some general crazing and small areas of
paint loss.
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known
as El Greco (1541-1614), made a series
of paintings depicting Christ and the
apostles between 1595 and 1610. The
most famous are the group of pictures
in the Museo de El Greco in Toledo,
although they are substantially larger
than the work at Charterhouse.
Examples in this smaller format do
exist – pictures of Saint Luke and Saint
James the Greater, both catalogued as
‘El Greco and School’, made €1.06m
(£719,500) and €880,000 (£597,335)
respectively at Christie’s in Madrid in
October 2005.
The picture here probably showed St
James the Less, judging by its similarity
to the face in the version at the Toledo
museum, and a couple of bidders may
well have thought they detected the
hand of the master himself.
Distinguishing between El Greco
paintings and those by associated artists
is something of a ﬁne art itself. The large
output of the artist’s workshop and
closely observed copies by later followers
have made it difﬁcult to gauge just how
many autograph works really exist.
The artist built up a productive studio
during his lifetime since his paintings
were in great demand. Depictions of the
apostles were especially popular among
religious institutions. After his death,
his son Jorge Manuel Theotokópoulos
inherited the studio and repeated his
father’s compositions for many years.
Areas of the picture at Charterhouse,
such as the face and the rose drapery,
promised something better than
“follower of”. Having now sold to a
London gallery for a price notably higher
than most El Greco copies, the work will
now probably undergo restoration before
having its attribution reassessed.
Right: catalogued as ‘Follower of El Greco’, this
head and shoulders of a saint made £98,000 at
Charterhouse.
Knight’s £6000 heir to the throne with a letter of conﬁrmation
Left: this portrait of the Queen by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970)
sold for £6000 at the spring ﬁne art sale held at Hansons (17.5%
buyer’s premium) of Etwall in Derbyshire.
The 15 x 11in (38 x 28cm) signed pastel on paper was dated 1950 (two
years before the subject, Princess Elizabeth, succeeded to the throne) and
it came with a letter from Buckingham Palace, dated 2011, stating that the
Queen remembered sitting for the artist. The Grosvenor Gallery, London,
had sold it in 1969 for 300 guineas, and on March 26-27 it sold at the
lower end of its £6000-8000 estimate.
An ink drawing by the same artist from 1921 entitled Repertory Theatre
Birmingham, Xmas 1921 exceeded predictions of £1200-1500 to sell
at £1800.
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Friday 15th May at 10am
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Oils: H. Moore, W. Moore, M. Newcomb, D. Holzhandler,
G. Thurlow, J.C. Ibbetson, Riegen, A. Martens, Zuccarelli
(school), Sassoferrato (school), T. Chidgey, T. Eyre Macklin,
M. Blesa, E. Noott, R. Bone. Watercolours: O. Norie,
F. Phillips, P. Marny, J. Hodgson Campbell, T.W. Morley,
E. Grieg Hall, W. Underwood, W.H. Woodhouse. Prints:
L. Edwards, B. Cook, Gwen Raverat. Furniture: 19th century
giltwood wall mirror. Clocks: Raingo Frères mantel clock.
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Jewellery, Glass, Watches, Clocks, Silver,
Textiles, Rugs, Carpets & Pictures
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Lot 142
A Rolex, Oyster Perpetual Submariner, a
gentleman’s stainless steel wristwatch,
circa 1992 £3,000-4,000
Lot 213
An 18th century drinking
glass with Jacobite style
engraving £300-500
Lot 38
A Scottish Silver inkwell, by James
Aitchison, Edinburgh 1899 £500-700
Lot 310
A nickel plated car mascot, signed
“Becquerel” £500-700
Lot 457: Henry Moore
(1831-1895), oil on
canvas, ‘After a Gale,
Walberswick’, signed
‘H. Moore’, and titled
Walberswick in lower
right hand corner,
53 x 77cm
Estimate:
£1,500-2,500
On view: Thursday 14th May 10am-7pm,
and morning of the sale from 8.30am
Lot 210
A Chelsea porcelain moulded dish, red
anchor period £300-500
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Catalogue from Wed eve on www.cotswoldauction.co.uk
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Lot 610
A Victorian oak gothic revival
floor standing gong in the
manner of Pugin £80-120
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1880–1980 Decorative Art & Design,
Vintage & Contemporary Sale
Saturday 16th May at 10am
Viewing:
Wednesday 13th May 10am-4pm,
Thursday 14th May 10am-4pm,
Friday 15th May 12 noon – 7pm,
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Thursday 14th May
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ANTIQUE AND GENERAL FURNITURE, EFFECTS
& TEXTILES SALE
Viewing: Monday 11th May 10am-5pm
Tuesday 12th May 10am-6pm
Wednesday 13th May 10am-6pm
Friday 15th May at 9.30am
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antiquarian books
Who needs Google Maps
Left: a 1924 issue
of Macdonald Gill’s
Wonderground Map of
London sold for £600
by Dominic Winter.
■ Created well before the
smartphone, early maps of the
capital could also be innovative
Below: the 1827
Greenwood Map of
London... sold for
£6000 by Toovey’s on
April 21 and, right,
the Greenwood Map
of Sussex... of 1825
that they sold for a
record £2200 in a sale
held last December.
Ian McKay
reports
THE most famous map of
London is surely Harry Beck’s
Tube example but recent sales
featured another distinctive
approach as well as more
traditional views.
While Beck’s instantly recognisable
design – inspired by an electrical circuit
– appeared in 1933, another colourful
design of a different sort demonstrates
that London Underground (LU) were
happy to try unusual designs as early as
1913.
MacDonald Gill’s stylised
Wonderground Map of London,
illustrated right, was originally
commissioned from the graphic designer,
mapmaker and artist by LU and was ﬁrst
placed in stations as well as being made
available for public sale. The slightly
smaller version offered by Dominic
Winter on April 8, however, was issued
in 1924 by the Westminster Press.
Close examination of the map at the
top-left-hand corner reveals the addition
of the words ‘On to Wembley’ and an
Art Deco lion, and it may have been reissued to coincide with the British Empire
Exhibition held at Wembley that year.
Measuring 2ft 5in x 3ft (74 x 93cm)
and still with its original, if now slightly
frayed and worn pictorial envelope, it
sold at £600.
On a far larger scale – and pre-dating
the Tube and most bridges – Charles and
John Greenwood’s Map of London from
an Actual Survey... was carried out in the
three years preceding its ﬁrst publication
by these surveyors and publishers in
1827. It is a linen-backed map that when
not in use folds in 60 sections into a
slipcase, but when fully laid out measures
5ft x 6ft 3in (1.37 x 1.89m).
It presents a striking but
geographically exact view of the city
and its river, and in a Toovey’s sale
of April 21, the example above right,
which shows some browning, was sold
at £6000. Only the copy in the Harris
collection, sold by Bloomsbury Auctions
in 2010, has made more – £6500.
On a smaller scale but close in date
was Cross’s New Plan of London, a
sectional map of 1834. An example in
original slipcase that Trevanion & Dean
had in their debut sale, held on January
10, was sold at £600.
Looking beyond London, a set of
the Ordnance Survey maps of England
and Wales issued in 1805-66 and
comprising a two sheet-index map and
111 other maps – lacking only that of
the Isle of Man – was sold for £5000 by
Bloomsbury Auctions on December 17.
Showing extensive hand colouring and
mostly measuring about 2ft x 3ft (63 x
93cm), the maps are all dissected, linenbacked and edged in blue silk. Some
show pale browning and dust marks but
the maps are now contained in 22 blue
morocco gilt bookform slipcases.
In an earlier Toovey’s sale, held on
December 2, a bid of £2200 had been
taken on another large folding map by
the Greenwood brothers, a Map of the
County of Sussex... issued in 1825. In 72
hand-coloured sections and with overall
dimensions of just over 4ft x 6ft 9in (1.25
x 2.05m), it showed some browning and
dampstaining and rather than folding into
a slipcase it was framed and glazed, but
the price was a record by some distance.
The Sussex map came to auction
from the library of a well-known local
man. The late W Leslie Weller, MBE, will
probably be best remembered by ATG
readers as an auctioneer with King &
Antiques Trade Gazette
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for London?
Above: one of the 12 chromolitho plates after Edward Coleman that illustrate his Scenes from
the Snow-ﬁelds... of 1859. Sold for £5000 at Bonhams.
Coleman’s cool Alpine views
Left: a set of Ordnance
Survey maps of England
and Wales issued in the
years 1805-66, sold for
£5000 by Bloomsbury
Auctions.
Below: a Panoramic
View Round the
Regent’s Park, sold for
£2600 by Bloomsbury
Auctions.
Chasemore and Sotheby’s Sussex, but
his interests were many. Others may
know him as president of the Sussex
Archaeological Society or as a longserving supporter and chairman of the
Chichester Cathedral Restoration Trust
(more biographical background may be
found at http://blog.tooveys.com/tag/wleslie-weller/).
See page 41 for deatils of a scarce
Little Book of Maps of 1821, aimed at
children, that was sold for £2100 by
Dominic Winter on April 8.
Moving on to topographical material,
‘A Pedestrian Tour to the North of
England in the Summer of 1779...’ is an
illustrated manuscript, compiled some
years later, that made £3000 in yet
another Toovey’s sale – this one held on
October 7 last year.
continued on page 40
ICE-BLUE hues add to the otherworld feel of the chromolitho plate
reproduced above, one of a dozen by
Vincent Brooks after Edmund Coleman
that sought to share the extraordinary
views encountered by Alpine travellers
and climbers.
Coleman was entranced by these
sights “...which are only to be met with
above the level of perpetual snow”.
An artist and mountaineer, Coleman
spent four years climbing in the Alps
and Cascades and made two ascents
of Mont Blanc before, in 1859, he
published Scenes from the Snow-ﬁelds;
being illustrations of the Upper Ice-world
of Mont Blanc. He dedicated his folio
collection to John Ruskin, in honour of
his “eloquent exposition of the beauties
and attributes of mountain scenery”.
In the publisher’s cloth gilt binding
and exhibiting marginal oxidization
of six of the plates, a copy offered by
Bonhams on March 25 as part of the
Hugh Selbourne library sold at £5000.
A copy offered last July as part of the
mountaineering library of Paul French
(1911-93) at Bloomsbury Auctions
was spotted throughout, showed
repairs to a few plates and had a
Liverpool Library stamp to the title, but
in modern half morocco it nevertheless
sold at £3800.
Catalogue now online
Important Books
& Manuscripts
Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street,
London W1S 1PP
Auction date: Thursday 21st May
Contact: Rupert Powell | 020 7495 9494
[email protected]
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Austen, Jane
Sense and Sensibility,
first edition, 3 vol., 1811.
Est. £15,000-20,000
A couple of copies of Coleman’s
book have made a little more than
£5000, but a later record of personal
experiences in the mountains sold one
week earlier by Bonhams, on March 18,
did set a record at £3000.
Inscribed as a Christmas gift, this
was Samuel Aitken’s Among the
Alps... Privately printed in 1900, this
oblong folio work was written for
Aitken’s friends and illustrated with
73 photographs. As Aiken explains in
his preface: “It is a plain, unvarnished
record of my own ascents and
adventures... I cannot say too much in
admiration of my friend Signor Vittorio
Sella’s pictures. Every dia-positive [a
slide] he prepared with his own hands
for me.”
Printed in Manchester in 1851
for private distribution, a signed,
presentation copy of Francis Philips’
A Reading Party in Switzerland: with
an Account of the Ascent of Mont
Blanc was another rarity in last year’s
Bloomsbury sale of the Paul French
library and sold well at £750.
That 2014 sale also saw a record bid
of £850 for a copy of Hugh Ruttledge’s
Everest 1933, signed and inscribed
by Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman, both
of whom had taken part in the 1932
Nanda Devi exploration and ascent.
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BARBERS
FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
IN ITS 51ST YEAR
FINE ART SALE
antiquarian books
maps and topographical works
continued from page 39
Monday 11th May at 10am
View days: Saturday 9th May and Sunday 10th May 10am–5pm
FURNITURE: 19thC pietra dura cabinet, boulle wall clock, 18thC walnut chest,
coromandel games compendium, 19thC French commode, 19thC giltwood mirror,
Gillows-style dining table, Georgian, William IV and Victorian bronzes
PAINTINGS & PRINTS: John Speed map of Lancaster 1610, collection of miniatures
PORCELAIN & GLASS: Meissen monkey ﬁgures, Royal Worcester 1913 gilded teaset,
18thC Chelsea/Derby, 19thC Spode, Ming bottle vase, Lalique, Bimini, and Antony Stern
SILVER & JEWELLERY: British Empire exhibition large spoon, Buccellati, 19thC Paris,
Anatriello & Sandona of Italy, gold, silver, watches, gemset
Militaria Aboriginal Ephemera Stamps Toys Linen and Costume
19thC pietra dura cabinet
£10,000-15,000
John Speed map,1610
£800-1,200
CATALOGUES BY POST: £5
NEXT GENERAL SALE: 8th June (provisional)
OFFICE HOURS: 9am – 1pm Monday to Saturday inclusive
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Buyer’s premium 18% + VAT Vendor’s commission 15% + VAT
Auctioneers:
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we shall be requesting cash payments or three days’ clearance of cheques over £250. However, should the purchaser wish, he/she may make
individual arrangements with us. If items are bought at the sale and not paid for, they will be re-entered for the next sale after two weeks.
According to the saleroom, this was
once part of a larger group of such
topographical collections produced by the
cleric and antiquary John Pridden (17581825), one of which, on Oxfordshire, is
now in the Bodleian. The manuscript ran
to 645pp and incorporated some 100
drawings, 22 engraved maps and 55
topographical prints.
Sold for £2600 on December 17 by
Bloomsbury Auctions was a Panoramic
View Round the Regent’s Park. It lacked
the end section of views to Hampstead,
Primrose Hill and Harrow and there were
some repaired splits and tears, mostly to
the edges, but the 11 joined aquatinted
sheets were all brightly hand coloured
and roll back into the original pictorially
decorated wooden drum. Published by
Ackermann in 1831, it is the work of a
Richard Morris.
Something that caught my eye in a
Canterbury Auction Galleries sale of
December 2-3 was a job lot of Faversham
interest – if only because that is my local
market town.
Modestly valued at £150-250 but sold
for £1250 was a lot that brought together
a 1774 ﬁrst of Edward Jacob’s History
of the Town and Port of Faversham...;
a bound catalogue of the auction of
Jacob’s ‘Curious subjects of Natural
5LJKW A Little Book of Maps..., issued
by the children’s book specialist William
Darton in 1821, was sold for £2100
by Dominic Winter on April 8. The full
title explains that the 27 folding and
hand-coloured maps, each with overall
dimensions of roughly 6in (15cm)
square, were intended to be “Referred
to when my Father or Mother Talk with
me about Geography”. With some short
splits along the folds and in stiff card
boards bearing publisher’s labels, they
are undoubtedly rare, and the sixth part
seems to be entirely unrecorded.
capes dunn & co
of manchester
Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers since 1826
TOYS AND COLLECTORS’ SALE
Toys to include a collection of 280 mint and boxed Corgi Classics, mainly limited edition
buses, coaches and commercial vehicles, a collection of costly modern, mainly German,
teddy bears, mainly 00 gauge model rail, an old Mamod boxed tin plate clockwork yacht, etc.
Collectables to include edged weapons, cameras, coins, postcards, stamps, two large brass
balance scales, a collection of mainly mid-20th century apothecary bottles,
a Japanese pre-war barograph, etc.
Tuesday 12th May from 11am
On view: Monday 11th May 10am - 4pm
and morning of auction from 9.30am
Early 20th Japanese Shibayama and gilt lacquer
Suzuribako with bronze water dropper, brush and
oblong palette, 8½in wide
Hornby ‘0’ gauge clockwork Cornish Riviera Est. £200-300
train set no. 3C with Caerphilly Castle
no. 4073 and two Pullman coaches
Est. £250-300
Rare circa 1933 King Kong jigsaw
puzzle, 200 pieces, complete,
by Chad Valley, size 16 x 8in
Est. £100-200
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Antiques Trade Gazette
History’ conducted by Mr Gerard of
Soho in 1789 and a 1770 reprint for a
Faversham bookseller, Stephen Doorne,
of The Lamentable and True Tragidie of
M. Arden of Feversham in Kent.
The latter, an anonymous play about
the real murder of a Faversham merchant
at the hands of his wife and her lover,
was ﬁrst printed in 1592, and has in
the past been variously, if spuriously,
attributed to Kyd, Marlowe and even
Shakespeare.
Many years ago I saw it memorably
performed in the garden of Arden House,
one of Faversham’s ﬁnest old houses,
with musicians playing from a window
in the upper storey, right above the
makeshift stage.
Sold for a record £2000 by Lawrences
of Crewkerne on January 30 was a copy
of a John Pouncy’s Dorsetshire..., the only
two published parts of 1857 containing 79
photolitho plates.
County histories from the collection
of Hugh Fattorini, many of them extraillustrated or large paper copies, were
sold by Sotheby’s on April 30. A few of
them will feature in a forthcoming issue,
along a note on an enormous collection
of 19th century drawings of historic
buildings Henry Petrie included in that
same sale.
Hume hits a high at £52,000
A COPY of A Treatise of Human Nature...,
the Scottish historian, philosopher and
economist David Hume’s ﬁrst book,
published in 1739-40, made a record at
Bonhams on March 25.
Four years ago, at Bloomsbury
Auctions, a three vol. ﬁrst in a later, 19th
century binding had set an auction record
at £42,000, but as part of the Hugh
Selbourne library this Bonhams copy
raised the bar to £52,000.
Like the Bloomsbury copy it lacked the
four advert leaves recorded in Jessop’s
bibliography of Hume’s works, and there
were a few other defects. Nevertheless,
it was generally clean and the three
volumes, though cracked at the joints, were
uniformly bound in period full calf gilt.
Hume’s book is further described
on the title page as “An Attempt to
introduce the experimental Method of
Reasoning into Moral Subjects” and
200 years later, the editors of Printing
and the Mind of Man described it as
“...the ﬁrst attempt to apply Locke’s
empirical psychology to build a theory
of knowledge, and from it to provide a
critique of Metaphysical ideas”.
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“...though universally hailed at the time,
the full importance of his conclusions was
hardly appreciated until Bentham realised
Hume’s utilitarianism and Mill his logic”.
Meditationes de prima Philosophia...
is a major work by René Descartes that
complements his much more famous
Discours... of 1637, but in ﬁrst edition
form it is rarely seen at auction. A 1641
Paris ﬁrst, offered last summer as part of
the Heribert Boeder library by Christie’s
South Kensington, was only the third to
have reached the salerooms in some 35
years. In 2002, a copy in period vellum
in the Arnaud de Vitry library sold at
£15,000 at Sotheby’s, but the Boeder
copy, in 18th century roan gilt, raised the
record to £22,000.
Much more recent sales have brought
to auction two ﬁrsts of Descartes’
masterpiece, Discours de la méthode...,
in which he sought to ﬁnd the simple
indestructible proposition which gives
the universe and thought their order and
system. As one critic has observed, from
this work stems “all modern scientiﬁc and
philosophic thought”.
Also at Bonhams, this time on March
18, a copy in contemporary vellum sold
at £42,000, while in a Heritage sale
of April 8-9 another, bound in the early
20th century in full black morocco by
Huser, reached $20,000 (£13,440) but
copies have made a great deal more.
Firsts in the Macclesﬁeld, Freilich,
Fiedman and Berland sales have all made
high sums in recent times and in 2004,
at Christie’s, a copy in a contemporary
vellum binding with yapp edges set a
record of £150,000 that still stands.
One other ﬁrst that is worth noting
here is John Evelyn’s copy, bound in
contemporary calf, which on its most
recent outing, at Sotheby’s in 1988, sold
at £27,000. In the 1977-78 Christie’s
sales of the Evelyn library it had sold for
£8000.
The ﬁrst English edition was published
in 1649 as Discourse of the Method for
the Well Guiding of Reason and in 2006
the Macclesﬁeld Library copy sold for
£23,000 at Sotheby’s.
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Estimate £50-80
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collection of ceramics
A gold,
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mourning
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£4,000-6,000
E.J.Verboeckhoven,
Dinant on the Meuse,
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Petrus Van Schendel (1808-1870)
Ferdinand De Braekeleer
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FINE AND DECORATIVE ART AUCTIONS on MAY 16th, 2015
RUSSIAN ART AUCTION at 10am EDT
EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION at 2pm EDT
GIOVANNI BOLDINI
(ITALIAN 1842-1931),
An Elegant Lady, 1871,
oil on panel, 20 x 13.5cm
$60,000-80,000
KONSTANTIN KOROVIN (RUSSIAN 1861-1939),
Old Town Square, c.1910-1920,
oil on canvas, 57 x 73.5cm
$150,000-200,000
JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH 1796-1875),
The Forest in Fontainebleau, 1820, mixed media on paper,
12.2 x 19cm
$15,000-20,000
NATALIA GONCHAROVA
(RUSSIAN 1881-1962), Wallpaper
with Hopoes and Flowers on Pink
Ground, 1910s, pochoir on paper,
48 x 46cm
$5,000-7,000
FRITZ ZUBER-BUHLER
(SWISS 1822-1896),
The Summer Roses,
oil on canvas, 61.4 x 50.2cm
$15,000-20,000
ANTONIO MANCINI
(ITALIAN 1852-1930),
The Italian Beauty,
oil on canvas, 48.3 x 37.5cm
$3,000-5,000
CAMILLE PISSARRO (FRENCH 1830-1903),
Travailleurs des champs, Pontoise, 1880,
mixed media on paper, 24.5 x 30.5cm
$700,000-900,000
AFTER HENRI GASCARS
(FRENCH 1634/5-1701), Portrait of Louise
Renee de Penancoet de Keroualle, 17th century,
oil on canvas, 70 x 83cm
$10,000-15,000
ENG TAY (MALAYSIAN b. 1947),
Imagine II, oil on canvas,
30.4 x 30.4cm
$4,000-6,000
RAMON CASAS Y CARBO
(SPANISH 1866-1932),
Portrait of a Young Lady in a
Blue Hat, pastel on paper,
39 x 30cm
$5,000-7,000
ANTO CARTE (BELGIAN 1886–1954),
Le Cirque, 1926, oil on canvas, 120 x 159cm
$200,000-225,000
A LARGE RUSSIAN ICON
OF NIKOLAI MOZHAISKY,
NORTHERN SCHOOL,
ﬁrst half of 17th century,
63.7 x 50cm
$22,000-27,000
HENRI MARTIN (FRENCH
1860-1943), Le garçon avec un
bateau au bassin du Luxembourg,
c.1932-35, oil on panel,
45 x 37.8cm
$40,000-50,000
JOAN MIRO (SPANISH
1893-1983), Album 19,
Plate I, 1961, color lithograph,
66 x 50cm
$2,000-3,000
JOSE CHAVEZ Y ORTIZ
(SPANISH 1839-1903),
The Art Collectors, 1878,
oil on canvas, 62 x 43cm
$4,000-6,000
MANÉ-KATZ (FRENCH 1894–1962), Reclining Nude, oil on panel, 23.5 x 66cm
$20,000-30,000
AN EARLY ENGRAVED MAP OF
PHILADELPHIA, NICHOLAS SCULL, 1762,
48.5 x 66cm
$15,000-20,000
BORIS BESSONOF (RUSSIAN 1862-1934),
Bright Winter Day in the Mountains, oil on
canvas, 64 x 80cm
$8,000-10,000
MAREVNA (RUSSIAN
1892-1984), Still Life with
Calla Lilies, oil on canvas,
92 x 72.5cm
$3,000-5,000
PAIR OF ENGLISH FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS,
early 1800s
$125,000-175,000
A POCKET MAIL ATLAS OF
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE FROM
THE COLLECTION OF COUNT
SERGEY STROGANOV, 1820
$13,000-17,000
AN ENCAUSTIC (FAYUM)
MUMMY PORTRAIT OF
A MAN, EGYPT, 3RD-4TH
CENTURY A.D., 37 x 21cm
$30,000-40,000
PAVEL TROUBETZKOY
(RUSSIAN 1866-1938),
Les Hommes Bleus, bronze
with black patina, 1897,
38cm high
$25,000-35,000
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MONKEY AND HORSE GROUP,
12.5cm long
$12,000-15,000
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Roses, Wildﬂowers, and Raspberries
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(84.5 x 65.7 cm)
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clockwise:
Franz Roubaud (1856 – 1928)
Horse market in Turkestan | Oil on canvas | 85,5 x 150 cm
Savage W. Cooper (mentioned 1880 – 1926)
The Red Sunshade | Oil on canvas | 76 x 127 cm
Solitaire Ring
1 brilliant ca. 3,16 carats | Germany | Ca. 1960
Large Micro Mosaic with view on St. Peter’s Square
Rome | 2nd half 19th Century | 29,5 x 39 cm
Magnificent Silver Cup with Neptune
St. Petersburg | 1885 | Pavel Fjodorovitsh Sazikov
Spring auctions
Jewellery & Watches 15 May 2015
Fine Art 15 May 2015
Europ. Applied Arts 16 May 2015
Viewing: 8 – 12 May 2015
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rock and pop
Getting better all the time
■ The Beatles collecting bubble
for the most unusual items
shows no sign of bursting
The garden gnome from the front of the Sgt Pepper’s album
sold for $42,500 at Heritage in New York on April 19.
Tom Derbyshire
reports
£1 = €1.42
WHEN it comes to rock and
pop memorabilia, The Beatles
are so far ahead of the rest
that they form virtually a
separate market.
In the US, despite the delights of
national music icons such as Elvis Presley,
The Grateful Dead, The Beach Boys
and Bob Dylan, who all have dedicated
collectors, it is often Britain’s Fab Four
who are setting the pace in this ﬁeld.
The Beatles bubble shows no signs
of bursting. All kinds of memorabilia
come up at auction regularly, in great
quantities, but if the provenance is
strong, so too will be the prices.
Inevitably, some items will be far more
unusual than others. For example, on
March 24 two pictures of John Lennon
driving his Mini taken from the back
passenger seat by the vendor sold for
£4400 against an estimate of £800-1200
at Omega Auctions (17.5% buyer’s
premium) of Cheshire in a dedicated
Beatles collection sale. John is seen
looking into the camera via the rear view
mirror. These were taken while driving
round to George Harrison’s place to
rehearse The White Album and were
sold by the original photographer with
copyright.
In April, 2013, Dominic Winter sold
the front door from Paul McCartney’s
childhood home at Forthlin Road,
Allerton, Liverpool, late 1950s/early
‘60s, for £4100 (estimate £3000-5000)
plus 19.5% buyer’s premium. In was in
this house that McCartney learned to
play trumpet, piano, guitar and drums.
By 1957 he had joined The Quarrymen
and began composing with new-found
collaborator John Lennon.
This house was one of the main
places they practised and McCartney and
Lennon tried out their new songs. A year
later, Harrison joined them and, after Pete
Best was replaced by Ringo Starr, The
Beatles as we know them were formed.
Over 100 songs are believed to have been
written in the house behind that door.
The weird and wonderful nature of
Beatles items is evident again in a May
15-16 sale at Julien’s sale at the Hard
Rock Cafe in New York.
Alongside the more familiar offerings
such as signed album sleeves and guitars,
Lennon’s bathrobe is estimated at
$9000-10,000.
Julien’s say the robe was originally sold
by Lennon’s housekeeper, Dorothy ‘Dot’
Jarlett, who said she was given the robe
by Lennon for her son. Jarlett worked for
Lennon at his Kenwood mansion in the
mid-1960s.
The striped bathrobe is accompanied
by a photocopy of a letter of authenticity
from Jarlett and additional material about
subsequent sales of the robe.
It was sold as part of lot 182 in
Sotheby’s Rock & Roll Memorabilia 195584 auction in London in August 1984.
Less unusual but highly soughtafter items at Julien’s include a 1963
Mastersound electric guitar played by
Harrison (estimate $400,000-600,000).
It was used by Harrison in the summer
of 1963 when he had it on loan from
Barratt’s Music Store.
Also on offer are a signed Hard Day’s
Night album cover (est: $50,000-70,000),
Beatles signed documents (est: $20,00025,000), a signed Beatles Please, Please
Me album cover (est: $30,000-50,000)
and a piano Lennon played from The
Record Plant recording studio
Right: at a more affordable
price level, this pair of unused
stockings with its original
Beatles packaging was the most
unusual item among a large
section of Fab Four memorabilia
in Somerset ﬁrm Tamlyns’
(18% buyer’s premium)
online sale on February 17.
The items were collected by
a local man who heard The
Beatles when they ﬁrst started
performing and became a
lifelong fan. The stockings sold
for a top-estimate £50.
($40,000-60,000). Lennon spent the last
day of his life in a session at Record Plant
New York on December 8, 1980.
Talking of unusual Beatles items, what
about a prop from the cover of the Sgt
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album,
one of the most recognisable rock and
pop images ever?
It was not one of the famous faces, but
a garden gnome included on this instantly
familiar pop art image by Sir Peter Blake
(his then wife Jann Haworth was codesigner) that sold at Heritage’s April
19 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia
Auction in Beverly Hills, California. It made
a premium-inclusive $42,500 (£29,930).
The 20in (51cm) tall cardboard
cutout was chosen as a memento by an
assistant to cover photographer Michael
Cooper, and it was signed by The Beatles
immediately following the shoot. It
was auctioned framed, along with an
unopened stereo copy of the LP.
A Sgt Pepper’s album cover ‘famous
face’ sold at Christie’s South Kensington
in April 2003.
The life-size – 5ft 10in (1.78m) –
standee of Marlene Dietrich, signed on
the lower half in black felt pen by all
four Beatles and at the foot on the right
Right: John Lennon’s bathrobe is
estimated at $9000-10,000 in Julien’s
May 15-16 auction in New York.
in black ballpoint pen by Blake, took a
premium-inclusive £86,250 (estimate
£15,000-20,000).
According tothebeatleswebsite.com,
Sir Peter said: “The Beatles already had a
cover designed by a Dutch group called
the Fool, but my gallery dealer, Robert
Fraser, said to Paul, ‘Why don’t you use
a ‘ﬁne artist’, a professional, to do the
cover instead?’ Paul rather liked the idea
and I was asked to do it.
“The concept of the album had
already evolved: it would be as though
The Beatles were another band,
performing a concert, perhaps in a park.
I then thought that we could have a
crowd standing behind them, and this
developed into the collage idea.
“I asked them to make lists of people
they’d most like to have in the audience
at this imaginary concert. John’s was
interesting because it included Jesus and
Gandhi and, more cynically, Hitler.
“But this was just a few months after
the US furor about his ‘Jesus’ statement,
so they were all left out. George’s list
was all gurus. Ringo said, ‘Whatever the
others say is ﬁne by me’, because he
didn’t really want to be bothered. Robert
Fraser and I also made lists. We then got
all the photographs together and had
life-size cut-outs made onto hardboard.”
Other highlights of the Heritage sale
(prices premium-inclusive) included
a signed copy of Meet The Beatles,
obtained on February 9, 1964, by
Harrison’s doctor, sold for $47,500
(£33,450), and a Beatles signed Please
Please Me LP obtained by a British
newspaper reporter on October 31,
1964, sold for $23,750 (£16,725).
Garry Schrum, music consignment
director at Heritage, described the
Beatles memorabilia market as “hot”. He
added: “Collectors want one-of-a-kind
pieces and you can’t ﬁnd many things as
unique as an actual cover prop from Sgt
Pepper’s.”
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international previews
PARIS...
Left: a large topographical
section is just one area
covered in Ader’s photograph
sale to be held at their
rue Favart rooms on May
19. Asian subjects include
this panorama by the
photographer Felice Beato
of the Imperial palace in
Peking, taken in October
1860. Composed of two
albumen prints measuring
8½ x 22in (22 x 57cm), the
study is similar to one in the
Getty Museum. It has an
estimate of €3000-4000.
Running to almost 400 lots,
the sale also includes other
19th century photographs and
20th century images by such
well-known names as Robert
Doisneau, Helmut Newton,
André Kertesz and Man Ray
along with a section devoted
to paparazzi photographs of
celebrities, some of which
featured in an exhibition at
the Centre Pompidou in Metz
last year.
■ ader-paris.fr
NORTH CAROLINA...
Right: Brunk’s May 15-16 sale of British and
Continental furniture and ﬁne art, held in Asheville,
North Carolina, includes 17 lots from the collection
of legendary dealer Tom Devenish, all of them
acquired by the same buyer in the landmark auction
held in Sotheby’s New York in 2008. Pictured is
a pair of George III upholstered mahogany library
armchairs from c.1760, each with an old label to
the underside reading property of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. They are estimated at $800012,000.
■ brunkauctions.com
PARIS...
Left: a collection of waxed paper
negatives from the 1850s by
Gustave de Beaucorps (18251906) feature in Millon’s sale
of photographs on May 13 in rue
Rossini. The subjects range from
architectural and topographical
scenes in France, Spain and Italy
(especially Naples) and will be
offered as 34 lots. Pictured here
is a view of Paris looking towards
Montmartre taken c.1856 and
measuring 11 x 15in (29 x 39cm). It
is estimated at €6000-8000.
■ millon.com
VIRGINIA...
Right: Baron Wouter JP Sijlmans von Eldik led a life as extraordinary as his name. From the
ages of 4-7 his home was a Japanese internment camp on the island of Java during the Second
World War. His father was forced to work on the Burma ‘Death’ railway, and his notes and
journals were used in part by Pierre Boulle in writing The Bridge over the River Kwai. Von Eldik
was educated in the Netherlands and the US, and became the head of Asia for Polaroid after
his studies. His other business endeavours included partnership in the Beverly Hills antiques
ﬁrm of Yeakel, von Eldik and Pruyn, and later a luxury antiques-ﬁlled lodge in Jackson Hole,
before he settled in Charlottesville to found the House of Jacobus Antiques. On May 9,
Bonhams’ New York ofﬁce will hold an on-site auction in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the
1750s building where the House of Jacobus Antiques was based. The 576 lots of Old Master
paintings, English and American furniture and decorative arts are on offer without reserve.
Pictured here is a Queen Anne ﬁeld maple chest, from the ﬁrst quarter of the 18th century,
estimated at $4000-6000. Attributed to the ﬁrm of Coxed and Woster, it involves a late 17th/
early 18th century practice of using burl maple and soot to simulate the effect of tortoiseshell.
■ bonhams.com
CALIFORNIA...
Above: this 3½ x 8¾ x 6¾in (9 x
22 x 17cm) bird’s-eye maple box
will be offered in the works of art
section of Michaans’ next auction in
Alameda, California, on May 9. The
distinctive feature of this piece is the
1935 watercolour set into the cover.
Titled Coldstream Guards 1760, it is by
Reginald Augustus Wymer (18491935), a military artist whose work was
renowned for its accurate attention to
detail, particularly in the rendition of
the uniforms. The box was bought in
England in 1942 when the purchaser
was stationed there and carries an
estimate of $400-600.
■ michaans.com
send information of forthcoming sale highlights to [email protected]
Antiques Trade Gazette
Fine Art and Antiques Sale
Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 May
Exhibition from 29 April to 11 May
Mantel clock, Jean-Jacques Pradier (1790-1852), 67cm high
Pair of gilt bronze candlesticks, France, 19thC, 82cm high
JOAQUIN SOROLLA Y BASTIDA (Valencia,
1863-Cercedilla, Madrid 1923), ‘Study of Christ’
(1883), oil on canvas, signed and dated, 97 x 62cm
ANTONI TÀPIES Untitled, mixed media, 1968, 73 x 102cm
PABLO PICASSO (Málaga, España, 1881 - Mougins,
Francia, 1973), ‘Étude pour écuyer nu’, original ink drawing,
1919, 19.5 x 24cm
SALOMON KONINCK (Amsterdam, 1609 - 1656),
‘San Mateo with an angel’, oil on canvas, 150 x 170cm
Abalarte Subastas Internacionales, S.L. - Calle Juan Bravo, 46 - 28006 Madrid – SPAIN
[email protected] | Tel: (+34) 91 737 18 11 | www.abalartesubastas.com
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AUCTION
WWW.IEGOR.NET
870 DU COUVENT - MONTRÉAL, CANADA
1 514 344-4081 | [email protected]
FINE ARTS AND ANTIQUES
MAY 19TH 2015
7:30 PM – Montréal, Canada
ITALY, 17TH C. - 35”X14 “X12.5”
TISSOT, JACQUES-JOSEPH
(1836-1902) - 62.6X35.5”
ROYBET, FERDINAND
(1840-1920) 25X32”
ITALY, 17TH C. - 30”X28”X16”
BOIN-TABURET, LATE 19TH C.
KANGXI PORCELAIN - 8X5,5”
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Saffron Crocus (detail), watercolor on vellum, 1802-16.
Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
STUMPWORK, MID 17TH C.
13X35”
BOIN-TABURET, LATE 19TH C.
KANGXI PORCELAIN - 8X11”
Maps & Atlases, Natural
History & Color Plate Books
MAY 19
Specialist:
Visit our website for catalogues, previews and auction times
WARHOL, ANDY
(1928-1987) - 21X27”
104 East 25th St, New York, NY 10010 • tel 212 254 4710
SWANNGALLERIES.COM
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William A. Smith, Inc
EXCEPTIONAL MEMORIAL DAY AUCTION
Featuring the important estate collection of A.B Robbs, founder of the Continental Bank
Smith’s Auction Gallery-Plainﬁeld, NH-USA
Monday May 25th, 2015 at 10.00am
Preview:
Sunday May 24th from 12 noon - 6pm and 8am day of the sale
Important paintings from European Old Masters including:
life-size oil of George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence, provenance Wilstach
collection, life-size portrait Duke of Monmouth, attributed to Godfrey Kneller,
other artists include Bernhard Keil, Charles Duvent, Jan Tengnagle, George
Edema, Longhi, A.F. de Breanski, J.A. Munier, Fredrick Rohde, Edgar
Bundy, Powell Plat Ryder, Vachakan Ispiryan, M. Hifter, A. Odierna, John
Sartorious, L.B. Holst, J. Beaum, N. Spala, Max Pechstein, miniature on ivory,
J. Reynolds and much more.
Two large oil paintings, 10ft Parisian fountain scenes, Charles Duvent
Exceptional Estate Jewelry: A stunning 3.05 ct. pear-shaped diamond
and emerald ring, a spectacular Oscar Heyman platinum sapphire and
diamond bracelet over 30 cwt sapphires and 10 cwt diamonds, important Natural pearl (GIA) screw-back
pair of earrings containing approx. 13mm natural pearls, GIA cert, and earrings set in 14ct yellow gold
with 13 mm natural pearls with
diamonds and much more.
old european diamond accents
European Furnishings: Fine and early Italian walnut two-part cabinet,
with scenic carved facade, two other small size early Italian walnut cabinets,
two-part period French walnut cupboard ﬁne English Regency metamorphic
library table/library steps, c.1820, superior English satinwood partners desk
in the Georgian style; 17thC stretcher base large size tavern table with two
drawers, 18thC European walnut dough table with inlay and much more.
Accents: Large bronze of Psyche by Gregoire, large marble sculpture,
woman by R. Romanelli, pair of early Italian walnut carved cherubs, ﬁne
French bronze and rouge marble of an cherub with bow, good bronze
jewelry casket and bronze pheasant by Jules Moigniez, early bronze
cupid, signed Lemire, Enfant à l’arc, bronze signed A. Gaudez, bronze
work by Laroche and more.
Great selection of antique Oriental rugs, including many room sizes
including palace size, many early scatters and silks, over 80 in total.
VIEW THIS AUCTION AT
WWW.WSMITHAUCTION.COM
TELEPHONE AND ABSENTEE BIDDING IS ACCEPTED
Wonderful selection
of 80 antique
Oriental estate rugs
Fine and early Italian walnut two-part
cabinet, with scenic carved façade
Important Steinway model B
grand piano, rare art case with
matching bench c.1900
Life-size oil of George IV by
Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Provenance: Wilstach collection with literature
Terms: Cash-Check-Major Credit Cards:
18% buyer’s premium, 15% with cash or check
No Sales Tax Catered Comfortable Seating
William G. Smith and Kenneth R. Labnon – Auctioneers Gallery Manager: Leon Rogers
Visit our Website: www.wsmithauction.com or email us at: [email protected]
Large French
bronze signed
Grégoire, ‘Psyche’
WILLIAM A. SMITH, INC.
AUCTIONEERS AND APPRAISERS
PLAINFIELD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA - Tel. 1-603-675-2549
NH LICENSE #2825 - VT #57-702 – MA #525 – FL #AU-3179
Ofﬁces - Plainﬁeld, NH - Greenwich, CT - Sarasota, FL - Phoenix, AZ
M O N T E- C A R LO A U CT I O N H O U S E
SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015
IMPORTANT FURNITURE – OLD MASTER
& 19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS
Expert :
Eric Turquin
Bernardo BELLOTTO
(Venice 1720- Warsaw 1780)
Architectural Capriccio
with a Venetian villa
and a stone bridge
Oil on canvas
48 x 79 cm
Private Collection
10-12 Quai Antoine 1er - 98000 MONACO - 00 377 93 25 88 89 - [email protected] - www.hvmc.com
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Old Master Paintings & Drawings
English & Continental Furniture & Decorations
AUCTION
Wednesday, May 20 at 10am
EXHIBITION
May 16 - 19
L O C AT I O N
Doyle New York, Auctioneers & Appraisers
175 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128
SPECIALISTS
Paintings: Elaine Stainton, [email protected]
Furniture: Peter Lang, [email protected]
C ATA L O G U E
+1-212-427-4141, ext 203 or Doyle.com
Lot 15, Lavinia Fontana
Italian, 1552-1614
Portrait of a Lady in a Pink
Gown with her Pet Dog
Oil on canvas laid to panel
95.3 x 78.1 cm
Estimate: $15,000-25,000
Lot 311, Sèvres Porcelain
Footed Plate, Circa 1773
From the Queen Marie
Caroline (Charlotte-Louise)
Service, Length 21 cm
The Mr. and Mrs. James
R. Foster Collection
Estimate: $8,000-12,000
MELBOURNE | AUSTRALIA
CLASSIC FURNITURE &
OBJECTS AUCTION
AUCTION
30 MAY
AT 11AM
A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL SEMI-FORMAL
CHESTNUT BROWN NINE-DRAGON
(LONGPAO) ROBE (JIFU), QING DYNASTY,
LATE KANGXI PERIOD/EARLY YONGZHENG
PERIOD (CIRCA 1680-1735)
Estimate on Request
Enquiries:
Guy Cairnduff
T +61(0) 3 8825 5611
M +61 (0) 407 828 137
[email protected]
333 Malvern Road
South Yarra 3141
Melbourne VIC Australia
View catalogue and bid live online at leonardjoel.com.au
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on the-saleroom.com and is accurate at time of publishing.
Please check online for full and comprehensive details. All times are BST.
Tuesday
5 May
Historia Auktionhaus
Sale 125 - Art & Antiques
08:00
GERMANY
Brettells Auctioneers & Valuers
Collectables & General
10:00
Special Auction Services
Monthly Antiques & Collectables
10:00
Boningtons Auctioneers
and Valuers
Interiors Sale
10:30
C & T Auctioneers
Antique Arms & Armour,
Militaria & Police Collectibles
Including Part 1 Colin Churchill
Collection & The Late Mark
Davies Collection Part 1
10:30
Baldwin’s
Baldwin’s Auction 93 & 94
11:00
Chiswick Auctions
Asian Art
12:00
High Road Auctions
Antiques, Interiors &
Collectables
18:00
TIMED AUCTION
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury
Interiors: Furniture, Works of
Art, Pictures, Asian & European
Ceramics - Timed Sale
08:00
ENDS 5th May
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury
Decorative Arts From 1860 &
Modern Design - Timed Sale
10:00
ENDS 5th May
James & Sons Auctioneers
Antiques, Bygones & Collectors
Auction - Cigarette Cards,
Ephemera
10:00
ENDS 5th May
Ryedale Auctioneers
Fine Art & Antique Sale
12:00
ENDS 5th May
Charles Ross Fine Art
Auctioneers & Valuers
April Timed Auction
16:00
ENDS 5th May
Alexanders Auctioneers
Antiques, Art, Interiors. Costume,
Film, Clothing, Vintage Fashion,
Props, Wigs, Hats, Uniform,
Fancy Dress & Military
20:00
ENDS 5th May
Wednesday
6 May
Historia Auktionhaus
Sale 125 - Art & Antiques
10:30
GERMANY
Peter Francis
Furnishing & Collectors’ Sale
10:00
Adam Partridge
Auctioneers & Valuers
Antiques & Collectors’ Items
Auction With Maritime Antiques
10:00
Golding Young & Mawer
Grantham Collective Sale - Part 1
10:00
Baldwin’s
Baldwin’s Auction 93 & 94
10:00
Halls Fine Art Auctioneers
Interiors Auction
10:00
Spink & Son
British Banknotes
10:00
Warrington Auction Ltd
Antique & Collectable Sale
10:30
Bamfords Auctioneers & Valuers
Two-Day Fine Art & Antique Sale
10:30
Bourne End Auction Rooms
Antiques & Collectors’ Sale
10:30
Cato Crane Auctioneers
Antiques, Fine Art &
Collectors’ Auction
10:30
C & T Auctioneers
Antique Arms & Armour, Militaria
& Police Collectibles Including
Part 1 Colin Churchill Collection
& The Late Mark Davies
Collection Part 1
10:30
Thursday
7 May
Ewbank’s
Antique & Collectors’ Auction
10:00
Kodner Galleries
Antiques, Fine Art, Jewelry &
Decorative Art Estate Auction
11:00
UNITED STATES
Historia Auktionhaus
Sale 125 - Art & Antiques
11:00
GERMANY
Busby
General Sale
10:00
Anderson & Garland Ltd.
Newcastle
Comics Sale
10:00
Fellows
Jewellery
10:00
Gerrards Auction Rooms
Two-Day Sale of Fine Arts,
Antiques, Jewellery, Silver &
Quality Collectables
10:30
Greenslade Taylor Hunt
Antiques, Silver, Jewellery,
Interiors, Furniture, Ceramics,
Paintings, Works of Art,
Collectables, followed by 20th
Century Design
10:30
Wellers Auctioneers
Jewellery & Watches
12:00
Amersham Auction Rooms
Selected Period & Quality
Reproduction Furnishings,
Ceramics & Collectable Items
12:00
Friday
8 May
East Bristol Auctions
Two-Day Antiques &
Collectables Sale
09:30
Cluny Auctions
Antiques & Collectables
10:00
Swan Fine Art
Fine Art & Antiques Auction
10:00
Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen
Old Masterpieces,
19th Century Art
11:00
GERMANY
Rye Auction Galleries Ltd
Antique & Collectable Sale
10:00
Shefﬁeld Auction Gallery
Silver, Jewellery & Watches
10:30
Adam Partridge
Auctioneers & Valuers
One Day Sale of Tribal Art,
Ethnographica, Sporting
& Militaria
10:00
Bamfords Auctioneers & Valuers
Two-Day Fine Art & Antique Sale
10:30
Cuttlestones Auctioneers
Specialist Collectors’ Auction
10:30
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Gerrards Auction Rooms
Two-Day Sale of Fine Arts,
Antiques, Jewellery, Silver &
Quality Collectables
10:30
Keys Fine Art Auctioneers
Pictures & Prints
10:30
Shefﬁeld Auction Gallery
Antiques & Fine Art
11:00
Wellers Auctioneers
Antiques & Collectables
12:00
TIMED AUCTION
Peter Wilson
Timed Auction
12:00
ENDS 8th May
Saturday
9 May
East Bristol Auctions
Two-Day Antiques &
Collectables Sale
09:30
David Duggleby
Auctioneers & Valuers
Antiques & Interiors
featuring Yorkshire Oak
10:00
McTear’s
The Interiors Auction
10:00
Trevanion & Dean
Antiques, Fine Art & Collectables
10:00
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Wessex Auction Rooms
Silver Auction with Gold,
Jewellery & Cabinet Items
10:00
TimeLine Auctions Limited
Antiquities, Coins
& Collectables
10:00
Lacy Scott & Knight
General Antiques & Collectables
Henry Room
10:30
Jeschke, van Vliet Buch- und
Kunstauktionen GmbH
Valuable Books, Graphic Art,
Photography
Churchgate Auctions
Collectors’ Sale
10:00
Elliotts UK Auctioneers
General Antiques
& Collectables
10:30
11:00
GERMANY
Lacy Scott & Knight
General Antiques & Collectables
Jls Room
11:00
Toogood & May Auctioneers
Antique, Collectable & Modern
Interiors
11:00
Summersgills Auctions
Car Memorabilia Auction
11:00
Wessex Auction Rooms
Antiques, Furniture
& Collectables
12:00
Eppli im Königsbau
Königsbau Auktion - Luxury
From Private Estate - Jewellery,
Fashion, Luxury Accessories
13:00
GERMANY
Sunday
10 May
Toogood & May Auctioneers
Antique, Collectable
& Modern Interiors
09:00
Biddle & Webb
Collectors’ & Affordable
Antiques Sale
10:00
TIMED AUCTION
McTear’s
Contemporary Pictures
20:00
ENDS 10th May
McTear’s
Scribbles By Hollybrook
20:00
ENDS 10th May
Monday
11 May
Kruger Gibbons
Auction of Antiques, Collectibles
& Period Furnishing
10:00
Mossgreen Auctions
The Interior Decorator
01:30
AUSTRALIA
TIMED AUCTION
McTear’s
Asian Works of Art
20:00
ENDS 11th May
McTear’s
Clocks, Furniture
Tennants Auctioneers
& Works of Art
The Fashion Revolution
20:00
11:00
ENDS 11th May
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MAY 6
Weekly general sales appear separately at the end of the individual date listings.
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Index of UK and Ireland auctions advertising
Adam's ............................................................... 41
McCartneys ........................................................42
Barbers Fine Art .................................................40
Mendip Auction Rooms ......................................37
Campbells ..........................................................42
Wright Marshall..................................................18
Capes Dunn ........................................................40
Moore Allen & Innocent .....................................37
Cheffins..............................................................37
Nicholas Mellors Auctioneers Limited.................37
Chiswick Auctions ..............................................24
Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers ................20
Clarke & Simpson ...............................................32
Pippa Deeley ......................................................42
Cotswold Auction Company ...............................37
John Pye & Sons .................................................33
Crows Auction Gallery ........................................42
Semley Auctioneers ............................................16
Gordon Day & Partners.......................................42
Stroud Auction Rooms ........................................24
Dreweatts Bloomsbury .................................13, 39
Sworders ............................................................19
Durrants Auctions ..............................................42
Tamlyn & Son .....................................................42
Fellows ...............................................................33
Tayler and Fletcher .............................................60
Fieldings Auctioneers .........................................14
Tennants ............................................................25
Halls Fine Art ......................................................27
Thomas Watson & Son .......................................32
High Road Auctions ............................................ 12
Wellers Auctioneers ...........................................33
Keys Auctioneers ................................................32
Dominic Winter ..................................................21
David Lay............................................................32
Woolley & Wallis ................................................ 17
Mallams ............................................................. 15
Index of international auctions and events advertising
Abalarte Spain ..................................................51
Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Italy ...................................52
Arthouse Hejtmanek Czech Republic ..................52
Leonard Joel Australia .......................................55
Auktionshaus Zofingen Switzerland ...................45
Jordaens NV Belgium ........................................43
Bonhams & Butterfields USA ...............................5
Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG Germany ............43
Brunk Auctions USA ..........................................43
Roland Antiques USA ........................................55
Cambi Casa d'Aste Italy ....................................51
Shapiro Auctions USA ........................................44
Chaks Investment Ltd China ..............................46
William A. Smith Inc USA ...................................54
Doyle USA.........................................................55
Swann Galleries USA ........................................53
Heritage Auctions USA ......................................45
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany..................47
Hotel des Ventes de Monte Carlo France ............54
Waddington's Canada .......................................49
Iegor Canada ....................................................53
ADAM PARTRIDGE AUCTIONEERS
(18 Jordan Street, Liverpool, L1
0BP. Tel: +44 (0)1517 098070)
Antiques & Collectors’ Items Auction
with Maritime Antiques, 10.00
ANDERSON & GARLAND (Anderson
House, Crispin Court, Newbiggin
Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5
1BF. Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000)
Town & County, 09.30
ANDREW HILDITCH & SON
(Hanover House, 1a The Square,
Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1AP.
Tel: +44 (0)1270 762048) General,
10.00
ANTHEMION AUCTIONS (15
Norwich Road, Cardiff, CF23 9AB.
Tel: +44 (0)29 2047 2444) Antique
& Later Furniture & Collectables,
11.00
BALDWIN’S (11 Adelphi Terrace,
London, WC2N 6BJ. Tel: +44 (0)20
7930 9808) Ancient, British & World
Coins & Medals
BALDWIN’S (399 Strand, London,
WC2R 0LX. Tel: +44 (0)20 7930
9808) Auction 93: Ancient & World
Coins & Commemorative Medals
BAMFORDS AUCTIONEERS
(Peak Village Shopping Centre,
Chatsworth Road, Rowsley,
Derbyshire, DE4 2JE. Tel: +44
(0)1629 730920) Two-Day Fine
Art Sale
CATO CRANE AUCTIONEERS (6
Stanhope Street, Liverpool, L8
5RF. Tel: +44 (0)151 709 5559)
Antiques, Fine Art & Collectables,
10.30
JAMES THOMPSON (64 Main Street,
Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire, LA6
2AJ. Tel: +44 (0)15242 71555)
Sale of Antique & Other Furniture,
Clocks, Silver, Glass & China
CHELMSFORD AUCTION ROOMS
(42 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford,
Essex, CM2 0DZ. Tel: +44 (0)1245
354251) Antiques & Collectables,
10.00
LAWRENCES AUCTIONEERS
(The Linen Yard, South Street,
Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8AB.
Tel: +44 (0)1460 73041) General
Sale
CHURCH STREET AUCTIONS (1-2
Church Street, Tewkesbury,
Gloucestershire, GL20 5PA. Tel:
+44 (0)1684 296540) Art, Books
& Militaria
LYON & TURNBULL (33 Broughton
Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR. Tel:
+44 (0)131 557 8844) Rare Books,
Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs,
11.00
DENHAM’S (Horsham Auction
Galleries, Dorking Road (on the
A24), Warnham, Sussex, RH12
3RZ. Tel: +44 (0)1403 255699 /
+44 (0)1403 253837) Fine Art,
Antiques & Collectors’ Items, 10.00
PETER FRANCIS (Towyside
Salerooms, Old Station Road,
Carmarthen, SA31 1JN. Tel: +44
(0)1267 233456) Furnishings &
Collectors’ Sale
EWBANK’S (The Burnt Common
Auction Rooms, London Road,
Woking, Surrey, GU23 7LN. Tel:
+44 (0)1483 223101) Antiques &
Collectables
GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER
(Auction Rooms, Old Wharf Road,
Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31
7AA. Tel: +44 (0)1476 565118)
Collective Sale, 10.00
QUEENS ROAD AUCTIONS (9
Queens Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2
9ER. Tel: +44 (0)1392 256256)
Antiques & General, 10.00
SPINK & SON (69 Southampton
Row, London, WC1B 4ET. Tel: +44
(0)20 7563 4000) British Banknotes
GROUNDS & CO. (2 Nene Quay,
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13
1AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1945 580713)
Household Effects, 09.30
W. & H. PEACOCK (Bedford Auction
Centre, 26 Newnham Street,
Bedford, MK40 3JR. Tel: +44
(0)1234 266366) Antique Furniture,
Works of Art, Paintings, Ceramics &
Glass & Collectors’ Items, Military
Book & Ephemera Collection,
Jewellery & Watches, 10.00
HALL’S AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
(Ladhope Vale House, Ladhope Vale,
Galashiels, Scottish Borders, TD1
1BT. Tel: +44 (0)1896 754477)
Antiques & Collectables, 11.00
WARRINGTON AUCTION (551
Europa Boulevard, Westbrook,
Warrington, WA5 7TP. Tel: +44
(0)1925 658833) Antiques &
Collectables Sale, 09.00
BURSTOW & HEWETT (Abbey
Auction Gallery, Lower Lake, Battle,
East Sussex, TN33 0AT. Tel: +44
(0)1424 772374) General Sale
HARTLEYS (Victoria Hall, Little Lane,
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8EA.
Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363) Victorian
& Later General Sale, 10.00
WARWICK & WARWICK (Chalon
House, Scar Bank, Millers Road,
Warwick, CV34 5DB. Tel: +44
(0)1926 499031) World Stamps
C & T AUCTIONEERS (The Spa Hotel
(The Yorke Suite), Mount Ephraim,
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4
8XJ. Tel: +44 (0) 1634 292042)
Police Memorabilia & Militaria
IBBETT MOSELY (125 High Street,
Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1UT. Tel:
+44 (0)1732 456731) Antiques &
Collectables
WHITTON & LAING (32
Okehampton Street, Exeter, Devon,
EX4 1DY. Tel: +44 (0)1392 252621)
Coins
BOURNE END AUCTION ROOMS
(Station Approach, Bourne End,
Buckinghamshire, SL8 5QH. Tel:
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THURSDAY
MAY 7
AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS
(Station Road, Amersham on the
Hill, Buckinghamshire, HP7 0AH.
Tel: +44 (0)1494 729292) Selected
Antiques & Collectables, 10.30
ANDERSON & GARLAND (Anderson
House, Crispin Court, Newbiggin
Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5
1BF. Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000)
Comic Sale, 09.00
BAMFORDS AUCTIONEERS
(Peak Village Shopping Centre,
Chatsworth Road, Rowsley,
Derbyshire, DE4 2JE. Tel: +44
(0)1629 730920) Two-Day Fine
Art Sale
JEFFERYS (5 Fore Street,
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0BP.
Tel: +44 (0)1208 871947) Antiques
& Selected Items
LISNASKEA AUCTIONS (Unit 7,
Manderwood Park, Lisnaskea,
Co. Fermanagh, BT92 0FP. Tel: +44
(0)2867724334) General Sale,
19.00
LOCKE & ENGLAND (12 Guy Street,
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,
CV32 4RT. Tel: +44 (0)1926
889100) Furniture & General
Effects, 11.00
MARLOWS MILITARY AUCTIONEERS
(Stone House Hotel, Stafford Road,
Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 0BQ. Tel:
+44 (0)7789 628030) Militaria
BANGOR AUCTIONS (1 Greenway
Business Park, Conlig, Bangor, Co.
Down, BT23 7SU. Tel: +44 (0)28
9145 0494) General Household,
18.00
MORGAN EVANS & CO. (Gaerwen
Auction Centre, Lon Groes,
Gaerwen, Isle of Anglesey, LL60
6DF. Tel: +44 (0)1248 421582)
Household & Collectables, 10.00
BUSBY (Bridport Salerooms, The Old
Hemp Store, North Mills, Bridport,
Dorset, DT6 3BE. Tel: +44 (0)1308
420100) General Sale
NORTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS
(17 Northgate, Newark,
Nottinghamshire, NG24 1EX. Tel:
+44 (0)1636 605905) Antiques &
Collectables, 11.00
CHURCH STREET AUCTIONS (1-2
Church Street, Tewkesbury,
Gloucestershire, GL20 5PA. Tel:
+44 (0)1684 296540) Art, Books
& Militaria
CLUNY AUCTIONS (44 Commercial
Road, Buckie, Banffshire, AB56
1TX. Tel: +44 (0)1542 833318)
Antiques & Collectables, 12.00
DREWEATTS BRISTOL (Saleroom 2,
Baynton Road, Bristol, BS3 2EB.
Tel: +44 (0)117 953 1603) Antique
& Later Furnishings, 10.00
EAST BRISTOL AUCTIONS (1
Hanham Business Park, Memorial
Road, Bristol, BS15 3JE. Tel: +44
(0)117 967 1000) Two-Day Sale of
Antiques & Collectables
EASTBOURNE AUCTIONS (Auction
House, Finmere Road, Eastbourne,
East Sussex, BN22 8QL. Tel: +44
(0)1323 431444) Three-Day Fine
Art, Antiques & Collectables Sale
FELLOWS (Augusta House, 19
Augusta Street, Birmingham, West
Midlands, B18 6JA.
Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131)
A: Watches, 10.00
B: Pawnbrokers’ Jewellery, 11.00
C: Jewellery, 11.00
FREDERICK ANDREWS (Market
Hall, Lockmeadow, Maidstone,
Kent, ME16 8LW. Tel: +44 (0)1795
662741) Antiques & General
GERRARDS AUCTION ROOMS (St
Georges Road, Lytham St Annes,
Lancashire, FY8 2AE. Tel: +44
(0)1253 725476) Two-Day Sale of
Fine Arts, Antiques, Jewellery, Silver
& Quality Collectables
ORPINGTON SALEROOMS (Unit
7, Tripes Farm, Chelsfield Lane,
Orpington, Kent (off at Junction
3/4 M25), BR6 7RS. Tel: +44
(0)1689 896678) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
SWAN FINE ART AUCTIONS (The
Swan, High Street, Tetsworth,
Oxfordshire, OX9 7AB. Tel: +44
(0)1844 281777) Quality Antiques,
Paintings, & Decorative Interiors
CUTTLESTONES AUCTIONEERS (1
Clarence Street, off Waterloo Road,
Wolverhampton, WV1 4JL. Tel:
+44 (0)1902 421985) Specialist
Collectors’ Sale
DATCHET AUCTIONS (Datchet
Hall, Allen Way, off Horton Road,
Datchet, Berkshire, SL3 9HR. Tel:
+44 (0)7736 648673) Antiques &
Collectables, 18.30
EAST BRISTOL AUCTIONS (1
Hanham Business Park, Memorial
Road, Bristol, BS15 3JE. Tel: +44
(0)117 967 1000) Two-Day Sale of
Antiques & Collectables
EASTBOURNE AUCTIONS (Auction
House, Finmere Road, Eastbourne,
East Sussex, BN22 8QL. Tel: +44
(0)1323 431444) Three-Day Fine
Art, Antiques & Collectables Sale
GERRARDS AUCTION ROOMS (St
Georges Road, Lytham St Annes,
Lancashire, FY8 2AE. Tel: +44
(0)1253 725476) Two-Day Sale of
Fine Arts, Antiques, Jewellery, Silver
& Quality Collectables
KEYS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS (8
Market Place, Aylsham, Norwich,
NR11 6EH. Tel: +44 (0)1263
733195) Pictures & Prints
KLM AUCTIONEERS (Unit 22,
Moderna Business Park, Moderna
Way, Mytholmroyd, West
Yorkshire, HX7 5QQ. Tel: +44 77
5943057) Auction of Antiques,
Collectables & Household Goods,
10.00
SATURDAY
MAY 9
ACORN AUCTIONS (Below Unit
R, The Maltings, Station Road,
Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire,
CM21 9JX. Tel: +44 (0)1279
726398) Antiques, Collectables &
General
ANDREW SMITH & SON (The
Auction Rooms, Manor Farm,
Itchen Stoke, Winchester, SO24
0QT. Tel: +44 (0)1962 735988)
Monthly Antiques & Interiors
Auction, 10.00
ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS (The
Nottingham Auction Centre,
Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2
3GY. Tel: +44 (0)115 986 9128)
A: Antique & Later Collectables
B: Antique & Later Furniture
JOHN NICHOLSON’S (The Auction
Rooms, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst,
Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 3HA.
Tel: +44 (0)1428 653727) General
Auction, 09.30
CHILCOTTS (The Silver Street
Saleroom, Honiton, Devon, EX14
1QN. Tel: +44 (0)1404 47783 /
+44 (0)7966 901391) Furniture &
Interiors Auction
KENT AUCTION GALLERIES (Unit
C, Highfield Estate, Folkestone,
Kent, CT19 6DD. Tel: +44 (0)1303
246810) Victorian & Later Effects,
10.00
CHURCHGATE AUCTIONS (123
Scudamore Road, Leicester, LE3
1UQ. Tel: +44 (0)116 287 4856)
Victorian & Later Furniture &
Collectables, 09.30
LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT (The
Auction Centre, 10 Risbygate Street,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33
3AA. Tel: +44 (0)1284 748623)
General Antiques & Collectables
CLARE AUCTION (Town Hall, Clare,
Suffolk, CO10 8NN. Tel: 0845 689
9365) Antiques, Collectables &
Interior Effects
MANDER AUCTIONEERS (The
Auction Centre, Assington Road,
Newton Green, Sudbury, Suffolk,
CO10 0QX. Tel: +44 (0)1787
211847) Antiques & Interiors
RYE AUCTION GALLERIES (Unit 36,
Rye Industrial Park, Harbour Road,
Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7TE. Tel:
+44 (0)1797 222650) Antiques &
Collectables
DAVID DUGGLEBY (The Saleroom,
Vine Street, Scarborough, North
Yorkshire, YO11 1XN. Tel: +44
(0)1723 507111) Antiques &
Interiors
SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY
(Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. Tel: +44
(0)114 281 6161) Two-Day Auction
of Silver, Jewellery, Watches, & Fine
Art, 09.00
DEE, ATKINSON & HARRISON (The
Exchange Saleroom, Exchange
Street, Driffield, East Yorkshire,
YO25 6LD. Tel: +44 (0)1377
253151) Victorian & General
Auction
GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER
(Auction Rooms, Old Wharf Road,
Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31
7AA. Tel: +44 (0)1476 565118)
Collective Sale, 10.00
GREENSLADE TAYLOR HUNT (The
Octagon Salerooms, East Reach,
Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3HL. Tel:
+44 (0)1823 332525) Monthly
Antiques & 20th Century
Design Sale
BIGWOOD FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(The Old School, Tiddington,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire, CV37 7AW. Tel: +44
(0)1789 269415) 20th Century
Furniture & Effects
JAMES THOMPSON (64 Main Street,
Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire, LA6
2AJ. Tel: +44 (0)15242 71555)
Sale of Antique & Other Furniture,
Clocks, Silver, Glass & China
BRIGHTON GENERAL AUCTIONS
(Premier Suite, Brighton Racecourse,
Freshfield Road, Brighton, BN2
9ZX. Tel: +44 (0)1273 917118)
General Sale, 10.00
TW GAZE (Diss Auction Rooms,
Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22
4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306)
Antiques
WESSEX AUCTION ROOMS
(Westbrook Farm, Draycot Cerne,
Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH.
Tel: +44 (0)1249 720888) Gold,
Silver, Jewellery & Cabinet Items
WHITTON & LAING (32
Okehampton Street, Exeter, Devon,
EX4 1DY. Tel: +44 (0)1392 252621)
General Furnishings
TOOGOOD & MAY AUCTIONEERS
(The Delta Works, Salisbury Road,
Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire,
SP9 7UN. Tel: +44 (0)1980 846000)
Antiques & Collectables
BONHAMS (Aston Martin Works
Service, Tickford Street, Newport
Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, MK16
9AN. Tel: +44 (0)20 7447 7447) The
Aston Martin Works Sale
W. & H. PEACOCK (75 New Street,
St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19
1AJ. Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550)
Furniture & General Effects, 11.00
ADAM PARTRIDGE AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (The Cheshire Saleroom,
Withyfold Drive, Macclesfield,
Cheshire, SK10 2BD. Tel: 0845
835 0520 / +44 (0)1625 431788)
One Day Sale of Tribal Art,
Ethnographica, Antiquities, Sporting
& Militaria
HARRISONS AUCTION CENTRE
(Unit 5, Thorney Road, Nene Terrace,
Crowland, Peterborough, PE6 0LD.
Tel: +44 (0)1733 211789) Live
Online General Sale
J.S. AUCTIONS (Cotefield Saleroom,
Oxford Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire,
OX15 4AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1295
272488) Antiques & Interiors
MCTEAR’S (Meiklewood Gate,
Meiklewood Road, Glasgow,
Scotland, G51 4EU. Tel: +44 (0)141
810 2880) Interiors, 10.30
THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS (The
Dales Saleroom, Levens Hall Park,
Lund Lane, Killinghall, Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. Tel: +44
(0)1423 709086) General Antiques
& Effects, 11.30
TIMELINE AUCTIONS (The Bistro
Suite, Halfway House Inn, Southend
Arterial Rd, Brentwood, Essex,
CM13 3LL. Tel: +44 (0) 1277
815121) Antiquities, Coins &
Collectables, 09.00
BIDDLE & WEBB (Icknield
Square, Ladywood Middleway,
Birmingham, B16 0PP. Tel: +44
(0)1214 558042) Collectors’ Sale
TORRIDGE AUCTIONS (The Lion
Store, 19 Barnstaple Street, Eastthe-Water, Bideford, Devon, EX39
4AE. Tel: +44 (0)1237 471955)
General Household, 10.00
MICHAEL J. BOWMAN (Chudleigh
Town Hall, Market Way, Chudleigh,
Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 0HL.
Tel: +44 (0)1626 324071) Antiques
& Collectors’ Sale, 10.30
PSP AUCTIONS (Auction House,
Main Street, Tingewick,
Buckinghamshire, MK18 4NL. Tel:
+44 (0)1280 848843) Tools &
Machinery
DICKINS AUCTIONEERS (The
Claydon Saleroom, Calvert
Road, Middle Claydon,
Buckinghamshire, MK18 2EZ. Tel:
+44 (0)1296 714434) General
Auction, 09.00
R.W.G AUCTIONS (Market Pavilion
Building, Carew Airfield (A477),
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, SA70 8SX.
Tel: +44 (0)1646 651427) Antiques
& General Effects
DUMFRIES AUCTION HALL
(Greyfriars Hall, 117 Irish Street,
Dumfries, DG1 2NP. Tel: +44
(0)1387 266804) General Sale,
11.00
ROWLEY’S FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
& VALUERS (8 Downham Road,
Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 1AH. Tel:
+44 (0)1353 653020) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
EASTBOURNE AUCTIONS (Auction
House, Finmere Road, Eastbourne,
East Sussex, BN22 8QL. Tel: +44
(0)1323 431444) Three-Day Fine
Art, Antiques & Collectables Sale
SUMMERSGILLS AUCTIONS (8 Front
Street, York, YO24 3BZ. Tel: +44
(0)1904 791131) Car Memorabilia
Sale, 12.00
ELLIOTTS UK AUCTIONEERS (Unit
2/A, Stone Lane Industrial Estate,
Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 1HB. Tel:
+44 (0)1202 848454) Antiques &
Collectables
TENNANTS AUCTIONEERS
(The Auction Centre, Leyburn,
North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG.
Tel: +44 (0)1969 623780)
A: Antiques & Interiors, 09.30
B: Beswick & Border Fine Arts,
10.30
C: Vintage Costume & Textiles: The
Fashion Revolution, 10.30
GREENWICH AUCTIONS
PARTNERSHIP (47 Old Woolwich
Road, London, SE10 9PP. Tel: +44
(0)20 8853 2121) Weekly Auction,
11.00
HISTORICAL & COLLECTABLE
(Courtyard Hotel Holiday Inn,
Padworth, Near Reading, Berks,
RG7 5HT. Tel: +44 (0)118 971
2420) Commemoratives, Fairings &
Pot Lids, 11.00
MCCARTNEYS (Brecon Saleroom,
Brecon, Powys, LD3 8EX.
Tel: +44 (0)1874 622386) Antiques
& Furniture
FRIDAY
MAY 8
GREAT WESTERN AUCTIONS (1291
Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G14
9UY. Tel: +44 (0)141 954 1500)
Antiques & Collectables
BATEMANS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (The Saleroom, Ryhall
Road, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9
1XF. Tel: +44 (0)1780 766466)
Antiques & Modern Sale
THOMSON RODDICK SCOTTISH
AUCTIONS (The Auction Centre,
Carnethie Street, Edinburgh, EH24
9AL. Tel: +44 (0)131 440 2448)
Home Furnishings & Interiors, 16.00
WELLERS AUCTIONEERS (The
Guildford Saleroom, Bedford Road,
Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4SJ. Tel:
+44 (0)1483 802280)
A: Jewellery & Watches
B: Unredeemed Pawnbroker’s
Pledges
GORDON DAY & PARTNERS
(Bowens Yard, Park Corner,
Knockholt, Kent, TN14 7JE. Tel:
+44 (0)1959 533263) Antique
Furniture & Effects
TAYLER & FLETCHER (The Royal
British Legion Hall, Bourton-onthe-Water, Gloucestershire, GL54
2AR. Tel: +44 (0)1451 821666)
Antique, Modern & Reproduction
Furniture & Household Effects
TREVANION & DEAN (The
Joyce Building, Station Road,
Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1RD.
Tel: +44 (0)1948 800 202) Fine Art,
Antiques & Collectables
TRING MARKET AUCTIONS (Brook
Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23
5EF. Tel: +44 (0)1442 826446)
General Antiques, 09.30
TW GAZE (Diss Auction Rooms,
Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22
4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306)
Vintage Fashion & Furnishings
TWO MILLS AUCTION (Millpond
Street, Ross-on-Wye,
Herefordshire, HR9 7AP. Tel: +44
(0)1989 566 388) Antiques &
Collectables, Furniture & Effects,
12.00
W. & H. PEACOCK (Bedford
Auction Centre, 26 Newnham
Street, Bedford, MK40 3JR. Tel:
+44 (0)1234 266366) Furniture &
General Effects, 10.30
WALTON & WALTON AUCTIONEERS
(Parker Street Salerooms (off
Kingsway/Bank Parade), Burnley,
Lancashire, BB11 1AU. Tel: +44
(0)1282 423247) General, 10.00
WELSH COUNTRY AUCTIONS (2
Carmarthen Road, Cross Hands,
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA14 6SP.
Tel: +44 (0)1269 844428) Antiques
& Effects
WESSEX AUCTION ROOMS
(Westbrook Farm, Draycot Cerne,
Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH.
Tel: +44 (0)1249 720888) Antiques,
Furniture & Collectables
WHYTE’S (38 Molesworth Street,
Dublin, 2. Tel: +353 1 676 2888)
History, Literature & Collectables
SUNDAY
MAY 10
ANTIQUE FINDS (Welwyn Civic
Centre, Prospect Place, Welwyn,
Hertfordshire, AL6 9ER. Tel: +44
(0)1223 208434 / +44 (0)7791
045390) Antiques & Collectables,
14.00
BUTTERCROSS AUCTIONS (Benwick
Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough,
PE7 1AB. Tel: +44 (0)7713 081526
+44 (0)7855 555973) General
Auction, 10.30
ELEPHANT HOUSE AUCTIONS (The
Old Elephant House, Morton Street,
Royal Leamington Spa, CV32
5SY. Tel: +44 (0)1926 888186) The
John Morley Collection, 13.00
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HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE
(Hammerain House, Beech Avenue,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2
8ER. Tel: 01423872202) Antiques
Sale
LOTS ROAD AUCTIONS (71-73 Lots
Road, London, SW10 0RN.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7376 6800)
A: Contemporary & Modern Design
Furniture & Fittings, 12.00
B: Selected Antiques, Reproduction
Furniture, Works of Art, Carpets,
Textiles & Other Decorative Items,
15.00
MONDAY
MAY 11
1818 AUCTIONEERS (Junction 36,
Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands,
Cumbria, LA7 7FP. Tel: 0845 812
1818) Household & Interiors
BANK HALL AUCTIONS (Bank Hall
Works, Off Colne Road, Burnley,
Lancashire, BB10 3AT. Tel: +44
(0)1282 435435) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
BARBERS FINE ART (The Mayford
Centre, Smarts Heath Road,
Woking, Surrey, GU22 0PP. Tel:
+44 (0)1483 728939) Fine Art
Auction
BONHAMS KNIGHTSBRIDGE
(Montpelier Galleries, Montpelier
Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW7
1HH. Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900)
A: Asian Art
B: Musical Instruments
CAPES DUNN (The Auction Galleries,
38 Charles Street, Manchester,
M1 7DB. Tel: +44 (0)161 273 1911)
General Auction, 11.00
CHRISTIE’S (8 King Street,
London, SW1Y 6QT.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060)
A: Appreciating Elegance: Art From
The Sui Yuan Zhai Collection
B: European Courts Encounter Japan
CLARKS AUCTION ROOMS (2A
Heathlands Industrial Estate,
Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4DH.
Tel: +44 (0)7756 070198) General
Sale, 12.00
CRITERION AUCTIONEERS (53 Essex
Road, Islington, London, N1 2SF.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7359 5707) General
Antiques, Modern & Reproduction
Furniture, 15.00
CRITERION AUCTIONEERS (41-47
Chatfield Road, Wandsworth,
London, SW11 3SE. Tel: +44 (0)20
7228 5563) General Antiques,
Decorative Items, Modern &
Reproduction Furniture, 12.00
GORRINGES (Garden Street,
Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XE. Tel:
+44 (0)1273 478221 / 472503)
Antiques, General Furniture &
Effects, 10.30
HIGH ROAD AUCTIONS TW1 (55-61
Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1
4AW. Tel: +44 (0)20 8400 5225)
Antiques, Interiors & Collectables,
18.00
INMANS (98a Coleridge Street
(adjacent to 43 Rutland Road),
Hove, East Sussex, BN3 5AA. Tel:
0845 291 6987 / +44 (0)7769
697747) Antiques, Collectables &
General
KIRKHAM AUCTION CENTRE (31
Blackpool Road, Kirkham, Preston,
Lancashire, PR4 2RE. Tel: 01772
685178) Antiques & General Sale,
11.00
KRUGER GIBBONS (Unit 6, Price
Street Business Centre, Price Street,
Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41
4JQ. Tel: +44 (0)151 653 8877)
Antiques Online Auction, 11.00
MULLEN’S - LAUREL PARK (Old Bray
Road, Woodbrook, Bray, Co. Dublin.
Tel: +353 1 282 6107) Interiors
Auction, 11.00
OAKHAM AUCTION CENTRE (16b
Pillings Road, Oakham, Rutland,
Leicestershire, LE15 6QF. Tel:
+44 (0)1572 723569) General
Household Furniture & Effects,
10.00
WEST OF ENGLAND AUCTIONS (3
Warren Road, Torquay, Devon,
TQ2 5TQ. Tel: +44 (0)1803 211266)
Antiques & Collectables, 10.00
TUESDAY
MAY 12
BAMFORDS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (The Derby Auction House,
Chequers Road, Derby, DE21 6EN.
Tel: +44 (0)1332 210000) Victorian,
Edwardian & General
BEARNES HAMPTON &
LITTLEWOOD (St. Edmund’s Court,
Okehampton Street, Exeter, EX4
1DU. Tel: +44 (0)1392 413100)
Antiques & Interiors to Include Silver
& Jewellery
BRETTELLS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Auction Rooms, Rear
of 58 High Street, Newport,
Shropshire, TF10 7AQ. Tel: +44
(0)1952 815925) Collectables &
General Sale, 10.00
CAMPBELLS AUCTIONS (44-46
High Street, Worthing, West
Sussex, BN11 1LL. Tel: +44 (0)1903
238989) Antiques & Collectables
CAPES DUNN (The Auction Galleries,
38 Charles Street, Manchester,
M1 7DB. Tel: +44 (0)161 273 1911)
Collectables with Toys
CHARLES MILLER (25 Blythe Road,
London, W14 0PD. Tel: +44 (0)20
7806 5530) Maritime & Scientific
Models, Instruments & Art, 11.00
CHISWICK AUCTIONS (1 Colville
Road, London, W3 8BL. Tel: +44
(0)20 8992 4442) Rugs followed by
the General Sale
GARY DON (Curtis Buildings,
Berking Road (off York Road),
Leeds, LS9 9LF. Tel: +44 (0)113
248 3333) China, Collectables,
Gold, Silver & Jewellery, Good
Antique Furniture, Vinyl Records,
Record Players
GILDINGS AUCTIONEERS (The
Mill, Great Bowden Road, Market
Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16
7DE. Tel: +44 (0)1858 410414)
Victorian to Modern Furnishing &
Collectables
HIGH ROAD AUCTIONS W4 (30-34
Chiswick High Road, London, W4
1TE. Tel: +44 (0)20 8400 5225)
Fine Art & Selected Antiques Sale,
18.00
HOUSE & SON (11-14 Lansdowne
House, Christchurch Road,
Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 3JW.
Tel: +44 (0)1202 298044) Antique
& Reproduction Furniture, Porcelain,
Silver, Jewellery, Glass & Objets
d’Art
ISLAND AUCTION ROOMS (79
Regent Street, Shanklin, Isle of
Wight, PO37 7AP. Tel: +44 (0)1983
863441) Antiques & Collectables
KINGSLEY AUCTIONS (112-118
Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral,
CH47 3BG. Tel: +44 (0)151 632
5821) General, 10.00
TAMLYNS (Market Street,
Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3BN.
Tel: +44 (0)1278 445251) Antiques
& Fine Art
THOMAS WATSON (The Gallery
Saleroom, Northumberland Street,
Darlington, Co. Durham, DL3 7HJ.
Tel: +44 (0)1325 462559) Fine Art
& Antiques Sale
THOMSON RODDICK & MEDCALF
(The Saleroom, Old Auction Mart,
Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 9AS. Tel:
+44 (0)1228 528939) Traditional
& General Furniture & Interior
Effects, Antiques, Collectables &
Miscellanea
TIM DAVIDSON (Royal British
Legion, 15 Nottingham Road,
Gotham, Nottingham, NG11 0HE.
Tel: +44 (0)115 986 8550) Public
Sale of Sporting Memorabilia
WINGETTS AUCTIONEERS (29 Holt
Street, Wrexham, Clwyd, LL13
8DH. Tel: +44 (0)1978 353553)
Antiques, Interiors & Collectables,
10.30
WRIGHT MARSHALL (Marshall
House, Church Hill, Knutsford,
Cheshire, WA16 6DH. Tel: +44
(0)1565 653284) Fine Art, Antiques
& Interiors (Continues 14th May at
Beeston)
WEDNESDAY
MAY 13
COLLINS & PATERSON (10 Walker
Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA1
2EP. Tel: +44 (0)141 229 1326)
Antiques & Jewellery, 10.30
KIVELLS (Stanhope House,
Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 6DT. Tel:
+44 (0)1409 253275) Catalogued
& Selected Antiques
COTTEES AUCTIONS (The Market,
East Street, Wareham, Dorset,
BH20 4NR. Tel: +44 (0)1929
552826) Antiques & General, 10.00
PHILIP G. PYLE (The Bridge
Auction Rooms, 15 Market Street,
Hatherleigh, Okehampton, West
Devon, EX20 3JN. Tel: +44 (0)1837
810088) General
BAYLES AUCTIONEERS (Sandon
Saddlery Co, Rushden Road,
Sandon, Buntingford, Hertfordshire,
SG9 0QW. Tel: +44 (0)1763
281256) Dispersal Sale of
Remaining Stock, Fittings & Other
Contents
DIX NOONAN WEBB (Washington
Mayfair Hotel, 5 Curzon Street,
London, W1J 5HE. Tel: +44 (0)20
7016 1700) Orders, Decorations,
Medals & Militaria, 09.00
POTBURYS (Temple Street,
Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 9BN. Tel:
+44 (0)1395 517300) General
Household Sale
BOCKING ARTS THEATRE (15
Bocking End, Braintree, Essex,
CM7 9AE. Tel: +44 (0)1279
815464) Auction
REEMAN DANSIE (Incorporating
Kingsford Auctions, 8 Wyncolls
Road, Severalls Business Park,
Colchester, Essex, CO4 9HU. Tel:
+44 (0)1206 754754) General,
10.00
BOLDON AUCTION GALLERIES (24a
Front Street, East Boldon, Tyne &
Wear, NE36 0SJ. Tel: +44 (0)191
537 2630) Victorian & General
Household Auctions
DUKE’S (Fine Art Salerooms,
Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester,
Dorset, DT1 1QS. Tel: +44 (0)1305
265080) General Sale
ADAMS (26 St. Stephens Green
North, Dublin, 2. Tel: +353 1 676
0261) The History Sale, 11.00
DUKE’S AVENUE AUCTIONS
(Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester,
Dorset, DT1 1QS. Tel: +44 (0)1305
257544) Furniture, Paintings &
Collectables, 10.30
ASHGROVE AUCTION ROOMS (55
Leeson Park, Ranelagh, Dublin,
6. Tel: +353 57 862 6290 / +353
45 901 710) The Contents of 55
Leeson Park
ELDREDS AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
(1 Belliver Way, Roborough,
Plymouth, Devon, PL6 7BP. Tel:
+44 (0)1752 721199) Interior
Furnishings, 11.00
ROGERS JONES & CO. (The
Saleroom, 33 Abergele Road,
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, LL29 7RU.
Tel: +44 (0)1492 532176) Vintage
& Clearance, 10.30
SOTHEBY’S (34-35 New Bond
Street, London, W1A 2AA. Tel: +44
(0)20 7293 5000) Arts of Europe
BONHAMS EDINBURGH (22 Queen
Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JX. Tel:
+44 (0)1312 252266) The Sporting
Sale
BONHAMS KNIGHTSBRIDGE
(Montpelier Galleries, Montpelier
Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW7
1HH. Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900)
Jewellery
BONHAMS OXFORD (Banbury Road,
Shipton-on-Cherwell, Kidlington,
Oxfordshire, OX5 1JH. Tel: +44
(0)1865 853640) The Oak Interior:
including the Collection of Graham
& Susan James
BOULTON & COOPER (Central Sale
Rooms, Market Place, Pickering,
North Yorkshire, YO18 7AE. Tel:
+44 (0)1653 696151) General
Household Sale, 10.30
BOURNE END AUCTION ROOMS
(Station Approach, Bourne End,
Buckinghamshire, SL8 5QH. Tel:
+44 (0)1628 531500) General
Sale, 10.30
BYRNE’S FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(Pullman House, The Sidings,
Boundary Lane, Chester, Cheshire,
CH4 8RD. Tel: +44 (0)1244 681311)
Collectables & General
CHALKWELL AUCTIONS (2 Baron
Court, Chandlers Way, Southendon-Sea, Essex, SS2 5SE. Tel: +44
(0)1702 613260) Antiques &
Collectables
CLARKE AND SIMPSON (Ashe Road,
Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge,
Suffolk, IP13 0PX. Tel: +44 (0)1728
746323) Fine Art & Antiques, 10.00
CROW’S AUCTION GALLERY (Rear
of Dorking Halls, Reigate Road,
Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1SG. Tel: +44
(0)1306 740382) Pottery, Porcelain
& Collectables, Silver, Jewellery,
Clocks, Paintings & Furniture
CUTTLESTONES AUCTIONEERS
(Penkridge Auction Rooms, Pinfold
Lane, Penkridge, Staffordshire,
ST19 5AP. Tel: +44 (0)1785
714905) Home, Garden &
Collectables
DIX NOONAN WEBB (16 Bolton
Street, London, W1J 8BQ. Tel: +44
(0)20 7016 1700) Coins, Tokens, &
Historical Medals, 09.00
DOMINIC WINTER AUCTIONS
(Mallard House, Broadway Lane,
South Cerney, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ. Tel: +44
(0)1285 860006) Printed Books,
Maps & Documents, Travel, Atlases
& Natural History
DORE & REES (The Auction Rooms,
Vicarage Street, Frome, Somerset,
BA11 1PU. Tel: +44 (0)1373
462257) Antiques & General, 10.30
GILBERT BAITSON (389-395 Anlaby
Road, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU3
6AB. Tel: +44 (0)1482 500500)
Antiques, Fine Art & Collectables
BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER – THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION HALL
Saturday 9th May at 10am
MONTHLY SALE BY AUCTION OF ANTIQUES, FURNITURE,
CHATTELS AND SELECTED ESTATE CLEARANCES
To include specialist antique/modern silverware and the residual contents of
a large Oxfordshire rectory to be sold by auction without reserve
(550 assorted and varied selected lots)
Viewing: Friday 8th May from 1pm to 6pm and on morning of sale from 7.30am to 10am
For catalogues (£2.50 by post) and further information, please contact the Auctioneers
London House, High Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos. GL54 2AP
Tel. 01451 821666 Fax. 01451 820818
Email. [email protected]
For online catalogue and sale preview:
taylerandfletcher.co.uk
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GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER (The
Bourne Auction Rooms, Spalding
Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10
9LE. Tel: +44 (0)1778 422686)
Collective Sale
PLAYERS AUCTIONEERS (Players
Industrial Estate, Clydach,
Swansea, SA6 5BQ. Tel: +44
(0)1792 846241) Antiques &
Collectables
CALDER VALLEY AUCTIONEERS
(Fairlea Mill, Ellenholme Road,
Halifax, Yorkshire, HX2 6EP. Tel:
+44 (0)1422 886648) Antiques &
Collectables, 12.00
LOCKE & ENGLAND (12 Guy Street,
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,
CV32 4RT. Tel: +44 (0)1926
889100) Furniture & General
Effects, 11.00
GROUNDS & CO. (2 Nene Quay,
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13
1AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1945 580713)
Household Effects, 09.30
SOTHEBY’S (34-35 New Bond
Street, London, W1A 2AA.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7293 5000)
A: Important Chinese Art
B: The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics
- The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection,
10.00
CHEFFINS (Clifton House, 1-2
Clifton Road, Cambridge, CB1
7EA. Tel: +44 (0)1223 213343)
Antiques & Interiors Sale, 10.00
LYON & TURNBULL (33 Broughton
Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR. Tel:
+44 (0)131 557 8844) British &
European Paintings, 11.00
CHRISTIE’S SOUTH KENSINGTON
(85 Old Brompton Road, London,
SW7 3LD. Tel: +44 (0)20 7930
6074) Jewellery & Watches
MCCARTNEYS (Portcullis Saleroom,
Overton Road, Ludlow, Shropshire,
SY8 4AA. Tel: +44 (0)1584 878822)
Antiques & Collectables, 17.00
HALLS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(Halls Holdings House, Bowmen
Way, Shrewsbury, SY4 3DR. Tel:
+44 (0)1743 450700) Asian Art
HARTLEYS (Victoria Hall, Little Lane,
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8EA.
Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363) Victorian
& Later General Sale, 10.00
HOP FARM (The Hop Farm Auction
House, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge,
Kent, TN12 6PY. Tel: +44 (0)1622
872632) Antiques & General, 11.00
ISLAND AUCTION ROOMS (79
Regent Street, Shanklin, Isle of
Wight, PO37 7AP. Tel: +44 (0)1983
863441) Modern Household
Furniture & Effects
JONES & JACOB (Watcombe
Manor Saleroom, Ingham Lane,
Watlington, Oxfordshire, OX49
5EJ. Tel: +44 (0)1491 612810) Fine
Art & Antiques Sale, 10.30
JUBILEE AUCTION ROOMS (Phillips
Yard, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5NU.
Tel: +44 (0)1672 562012) Antiques
& Collectables
LAWRENCES AUCTIONEERS
(The Linen Yard, South Street,
Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8AB.
Tel: +44 (0)1460 73041) General
Sale
LYON & TURNBULL (33 Broughton
Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR. Tel:
+44 (0)131 557 8844) Jacobite,
Stuart & Scottish Applied Arts
MALLAMS (Bocardo House, 24a St
Michael’s Street, Oxford, OX1 2EB.
Tel: +44 (0)1865 241358)
A: Modern British Art
B: The Design Age & Studio
Ceramics
MARTIN & POLE (The Auction
House, 10 Milton Road,
Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1DB.
Tel: +44 (0)118 979 0460) Antiques
& Collectables, 10.00
MELLORS & KIRK (The Auction
House, Gregory Street,
Nottingham, NG7 2NL. Tel: +44
(0)115 979 0000) Antiques &
Objects including Silver & Jewellery
NORTHWICH AUCTION (6 Runcorn
Road, Barnton, Northwich,
Cheshire, CW8 4EL. Tel: +44
(0)1606 762222) Antiques &
Collectables Sale
OKEHAMPTON AUCTIONS (Unit
4a, Fatherford Farm, Exeter Road,
Okehampton, Devon, EX20 1QQ.
Tel: +44 (0)1837 55592) Antiques
& Collectables, 10.00
PENRITH FARMERS’ & KIDD’S
(The Skirsgill Saleroom, Skirsgill,
Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0DN. Tel:
+44 (0)1768 890781) Victoriana &
Later Furnishings & Effects, 09.30
SPECIAL AUCTION SERVICES
(81 Greenham Business Park,
Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 6HW.
Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595) Express
Toy Auction, 10.00
STROUD AUCTIONS (Unit J, Bath
Road Trading Estate, Bath Road,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 3QF.
Tel: +44 (0)1453 873800) Antiques
& Collectables
SWORDERS (Cambridge Road,
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex,
CM24 8GE. Tel: +44 (0)1279
817778) Interiors, 10.00
TIM DAVIDSON (New Market
House, Meadow Lane, Gotham,
Nottingham, NG2 3GY. Tel: +44
(0)115 986 8550) Postal Sale of
Cigarette & Trade Cards
TOWNSEND AUCTION GALLERIES
(Unit 12 Paynes Business Park,
Dereham Road, Beeston, Norfolk,
PE32 2NQ. Tel: +44 (0)1328
598080) Antiques & Collectables,
10.00
THURSDAY
MAY 14
ADDISONS AUCTIONEERS (The
Auction Rooms, Staindrop Road,
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, DL12
8TD. Tel: +44 (0)1833 690545)
Antiques, Interiors, Garden &
Architectural Salvage
AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS
(Station Road, Amersham on the
Hill, Buckinghamshire, HP7 0AH.
Tel: +44 (0)1494 729292) 19th
Century & Later Furnishings, Objects
of Desire, 10.30
ASTON’S (Baylies’ Hall, Tower Street,
Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 1NB.
Tel: +44 (0)1384 250220) Antiques
& Collectables, Toy & Model Railway
Auction
BANGOR AUCTIONS (1 Greenway
Business Park, Conlig, Bangor, Co.
Down, BT23 7SU. Tel: +44 (0)28
9145 0494) General Household,
18.00
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
GODALMING (Baverstock House, 93
High Street, Godalming, Surrey,
GU7 1AL. Tel: +44 (0)1483 423567)
Bibliophile Sale, 11.00
BONHAMS (101 New Bond Street,
London, W1S 1SR.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7447 7447)
A: Fine Chinese Art
B: Fine Japanese Art
CLEVEDON SALEROOMS (The
Auction Centre, Kenn Road,
Bristol, BS21 6TT. Tel: +44 (0)1934
830111) Antiques, Furnishings,
Collectables & Jewellery, 10.00
DAVID LAY AUCTIONS (The
Penzance Auction House, Alverton,
Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4RE. Tel:
+44 (0)1736 361414) Antiques &
Selected Items, 10.00
DOMINIC WINTER AUCTIONS
(Mallard House, Broadway Lane,
South Cerney, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ. Tel:
+44 (0)1285 860006) Motoring,
Aviation, Maritime & Railway
History: Models, Toys, Books &
Documents, Fine Art
MORPHETS (6 Albert Street,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1
1JL. Tel: +44 (0)1423 530030) The
Bazaar, 17.00
PERKINS, GEORGE MAWER & CO.
(Corn Exchange Chambers, Queen
Street, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire,
LN8 3EH. Tel: +44 (0) 1673
843011) Fine Art & Antiques
PETER WILSON (Victoria Gallery,
Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire,
CW5 5DG. Tel: +44 (0)1270
623878) Gallery Sale, 11.00
PHILIP SERRELL (The Malvern
Saleroom, Barnards Green Road,
Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14
3LW. Tel: +44 (0)1684 892314) Fine
Art & Antiques
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FELLOWS (Augusta House, 19
Augusta Street, Birmingham,
West Midlands, B18 6JA. Tel: +44
(0)1212 122131) Antique & Modern
Jewellery, 11.00
SPECIAL AUCTION SERVICES
(81 Greenham Business Park,
Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 6HW.
Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595) Express
Toy Auction, 10.00
GEORGE KIDNER (The Lymington
Saleroom, Emsworth Road,
Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BL.
Tel: +44 (0)1590 670070) Furniture
& Effects, 10.30
SPINK & SON (69 Southampton
Row, London, WC1B 4ET. Tel:
+44 (0)20 7563 4000) The Slaney
Collection of English Coins
PETTMANS (52 Athelstan Road,
Margate, Kent, CT9 2BH. Tel: +44
(0)1843 220234) General, 10.00
BULSTRODES AUCTION ROOMS
(13 Stour Road, Christchurch,
Dorset, BH23 1PL. Tel: +44 (0)1202
482244) Antiques & Collectables
J. STUART WATSON (The Market
Hall, Lockmeadow Leisure Complex,
Barker Road, Maidstone, Kent,
ME16 8LW. Tel: +44 (0)1622
831859) Antique & Modern
Furniture & Effects, 10.00
PETTMANS SANDWICH AUCTION
ROOM (St. Mary’s, Strand Street,
Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9EN. Tel:
+44 (0)1304 621000) Antiques &
Collectables
BURY & HILTON (The Auction
Rooms, Leekbrook Way, Leek,
Staffordshire, ST13 7AP. Tel: +44
(0)1538 383344) General Furniture
& Effects, 10.30
LISNASKEA AUCTIONS (Unit 7,
Manderwood Park, Lisnaskea,
Co. Fermanagh, BT92 0FP. Tel: +44
(0)2867724334) General Sale,
19.00
WRIGHT MARSHALL (Beeston
Castle, Tarporley, Cheshire, CW6
9NZ. Tel: +44 (0)1829 262150)
Antiques Fine Art & Interiors
FRIDAY
MAY 15
BIGWOOD FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(The Old School, Tiddington,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire, CV37 7AW. Tel: +44
(0)1789 269415) 20th Century
Furniture & Effects
CHAUCER AUCTIONS (Tel: +44
(0)845 1304094) Autograph,
Military, Sport, Entertainment &
Historical Auction - Online Only
COTSWOLD AUCTION COMPANY
(Bingham Hall, King Street,
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7
1JT. Tel: +44 (0)1285 642420)
Pictures, Antiques & Interiors, 10.00
DAVID LAY AUCTIONS (The
Penzance Auction House, Alverton,
Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4RE. Tel:
+44 (0)1736 361414) Antiques &
Selected Items, 10.00
DOMINIC WINTER AUCTIONS
(Mallard House, Broadway Lane,
South Cerney, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ. Tel: +44
(0)1285 860006) Battle of Waterloo
Bicentenary Sale: Military History,
Arms & Armour, Militaria
DURRANTS AUCTION ROOMS
(The Old School House, Peddars
Lane, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9UE.
Tel: +44 (0)1502 713490)
A: Fine Art & Antiques
B: Furniture
JF & DAUGHTERS (Bourne Hall,
Chessington Road, Ewell, Epsom,
Surrey, KT17 1TG. Tel: +44 (0)1372
738054) General Auction
Bespoke, ﬂexible and above all,
affordable insurance
HENRY ADAMS AUCTIONS (Baffins
Hall, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West
Sussex, PO19 1UA. Tel: +44 (0)1243
532223) Antiques & Collectables,
10.00
W. & H. PEACOCK (75 New Street,
St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19
1AJ. Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550)
Furniture & General Effects, 11.00
STROUD AUCTIONS (Unit J, Bath
Road Trading Estate, Bath Road,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 3QF.
Tel: +44 (0)1453 873800) Antiques
& Collectables
THOMSON RODDICK SCOTTISH
AUCTIONS (The Auction Centre,
Carnethie Street, Edinburgh, EH24
9AL. Tel: +44 (0)131 440 2448)
Home Furnishings & Interiors, 16.00
TRANSPORT COLLECTOR AUCTIONS
(Mallard House, Broadway Lane,
South Cerney, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ. Tel: +44
(0)1460 55955) Motoring Literature,
Automobilia & Early Cycling
MCTEAR’S (Meiklewood Gate,
Meiklewood Road, Glasgow,
Scotland, G51 4EU. Tel: +44 (0)141
810 2880) Interiors, 10.30
MOORE ALLEN & INNOCENT
(The Salerooms, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire, GL7 5RH. Tel:
+44 (0)1285 646050) Antiques &
General
SIDCUP AUCTION ROOMS (14
Church Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA14
6BX. Tel: +44 (0)20 8302 4565)
Antiques & Collectables, 11.00
SMITHS AUCTIONS (Old
Chapel, Culver Street, Newent,
Gloucestershire, GL18 1DB. Tel:
+44 (0)1531 821776) Antiques
& Collectables including Silver &
Jewellery
THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS (The
Dales Saleroom, Levens Hall Park,
Lund Lane, Killinghall, Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. Tel: +44
(0)1423 709086) General Antiques
& Effects, 11.30
WATSONS (Heathfield Auction
Rooms, The Market, Burwash Road,
Heathfield, East Sussex, TN21
8RA. Tel: +44 (0)1435 862132)
Garden & Statuary
SATURDAY
MAY 16
ANTIQUES 2 GO (Moreton
Pinkney Village Hall, Lower Green,
Moreton Pinkney, Daventry,
Northamptonshire, NN11 3SG. Tel:
+44 (0)1327 871797) Antiques &
General, 10.30
ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS (The
Nottingham Auction Centre,
Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2
3GY. Tel: +44 (0)115 986 9128)
A: Antique & Later Collectables
B: Antique & Later Furniture
BELLMANS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (New Pound, Wisborough
Green, Billingshurst, Sussex, RH14
0AZ. Tel: +44 (0)1403 700858)
Saturday Sale, 10.00
BROWNS AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
(13A Bangor Road, Edinburgh,
EH6 5JY. Tel: +44 (0)131 555 6777)
Antiques & Interiors, 11.00
CHIPPENHAM AUCTION ROOMS
(Unit H, The Old Laundry, Ivy Road,
Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1SB.
Tel: +44 (0)1249 444544) Enamel
Signs, Advertising & Collectors’ Sale
CHRIS CLUBLEY & CO (Melbourne
Village Hall Sale Room, York, YO42
2RB. Tel: +44 (0)1430 874000)
Antiques, Vintage & Collective Sale,
13.00
CHURCHGATE AUCTIONS (123
Scudamore Road, Leicester, LE3
1UQ. Tel: +44 (0)116 287 4856)
Victorian & Later Furniture &
Collectables, 09.30
COTTEES AUCTIONS (The Market,
East Street, Wareham, Dorset,
BH20 4NR. Tel: +44 (0)1929
552826) Poole Pottery
COYS (Ascot Racecourse, Ascot
Pavilion, Ascot, SL5 7JX. Tel: +44
(0)20 8614 7888) The Spirit of
Motoring
DOUGLAS AUCTION HOUSE
(Salisbury Street Church, Farrant
Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2
3HG. Tel: ) Antiques Sale, 10.00
EATON & HOLLIS (The Market
Salesroom, Chequers Road, Derby,
DE21 6EP. Tel: +44 (0)1322
370482) Furniture Sales, 10.30
FIELDINGS AUCTIONEERS (Mill Race
Lane, Stourbridge, West Midlands,
DY8 1JN. Tel: +44 (0)1384 444140)
Fine Art & Antiques
GREENWICH AUCTIONS
PARTNERSHIP (47 Old Woolwich
Road, London, SE10 9PP. Tel: +44
(0)20 8853 2121) Weekly Auction,
11.00
TW GAZE (Diss Auction Rooms,
Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22
4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306) The
Quarterly Antiques Special
HARRISONS AUCTION CENTRE
(Unit 5, Thorney Road, Nene Terrace,
Crowland, Peterborough, PE6 0LD.
Tel: +44 (0)1733 211789) Live
Online General Sale
WATERMANS AUCTION ROOMS
(Shellbank Lane, Manor Farm, Green
Street Green, Dartford, Kent, DA2
8DL. Tel: +44 (0)1474 700033)
Antiques & Collectables
HENRY ALDRIDGE & SON (Unit
1, Bath Road Business Centre,
Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1XA. Tel:
+44 (0)1380 729199) Fine Art,
Antiques & Collectables
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HOSE RHODES DICKSON (The
Auction Rooms, Quay Lane,
Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 0AT.
Tel: +44 (0)1983 402222) Modern
& Vintage
HYPERION AUCTIONS (Station
Road, St Ives, Cambridgeshire,
PE27 5BH. Tel: +44 (0)1480
464140) Antiques, Collectables &
Later Furnishings, 11.00
J.S. AUCTIONS (Cotefield Saleroom,
Oxford Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire,
OX15 4AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1295
272488) Fine Art & Antiques
Auction
LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT (The
Auction Centre, 10 Risbygate Street,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33
3AA. Tel: +44 (0)1284 748623)
Toys & Collectors’ Models
LAIDLAW AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
(Escott Business Park, Rome Street,
Carlisle, Cumbria, CA2 5LE. Tel:
+44 (0)1228 904905) General
Collectors’ Items & Furnishings
LITTLETON AUCTIONS (School
Lane, Middle Littleton, Evesham,
Worcestershire, WR11 8LN. Tel:
+44 (0)1386 244379) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
LOCKDALES (52 Barrack Square,
Martlesham Heath, Ipswich,
Suffolk, IP5 3RF. Tel: +44 (0)1473
627110) Coins & Collectables
LONGSTAFF (Enterprise Way,
Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 3YR.
Tel: +44 (0)1775 766766) Furniture
& Effects, 09.30
LOWESTOFT AUCTION ROOMS
(Pinbush Road Industrial Estate,
Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 7NL. Tel:
+44 (0)1502 531532) Antiques &
General
MENDIP AUCTION ROOMS (Rookery
Farm, Roemead Road, Binegar,
Somerset, BA3 4UL. Tel: +44
(0)1749 840770) Antiques, Fine Art
& Collectables
NICHOLAS MELLORS AUCTIONEERS
(Kelham Road, Newark,
Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BX.
Tel: +44 (0)1636 705456 / +44
(0)7974 429185) 20th Century
Decorative Art & Design, 10.00
NIGEL WARD & COMPANY (The
Border Property Centre, Pontrilas,
Hereford, HR2 0EH. Tel: +44
(0)1981 240140) Auctions of
Antique & Country Furniture, Effects,
Porcelain, Paintings, Objets d’Art &
Collectables
OTTERY AUCTION ROOMS (Unit
30/32, Finnimore Industrial Estate,
Ottery St Mary, Devon, EX11
1NR. Tel: +44 (0)1404 811800)
Vintage & Collectables, 10.00
PIPPA DEELEY AUCTIONS (Bodiam
International Arena, Court Lodge
Farm, Bodiam, TN32 5UJ. Tel:
+44 (0)1580 830568 / +44
(0)7977 565616) Antiques, Fine
Art, Silver, Jewellery, Works of Art &
Collectables
PRIORY AUCTIONS (Rangeworthy
Village Hall, Wotton Road, Bristol,
BS37 7LZ. Tel: +44 (0)7517
123909) Antiques, Collectables &
General Effects
PSP AUCTIONS (Auction House,
Main Street, Tingewick,
Buckinghamshire, MK18 4NL. Tel:
+44 (0)1280 848843) General Sale
ROSEBERYS LONDON (70-76
Knights Hill, London, SE27 0JD.
Tel: +44 (0)20 8761 2522) Art &
Antiques
ROUSELLS ANTIQUES AND
AUCTIONS (21a High Street,
Criccieth, Gwynedd, LL52 0BS. Tel:
+44 (0)7890 681046) Antiques &
Furniture, 10.30
RYEDALE AUCTIONEERS (Cooks
Yard, New Road, Kirkbymoorside,
York, YO62 6DZ. Tel: +44 (0)1751
431544) General, 11.00
SEMLEY AUCTIONEERS (Station
Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, Dorset,
SP7 9AN. Tel: +44 (0)1747 855122)
Oriental & Islamic Ceramics & Works
of Art, Persian & European Rugs &
Textiles, Antique Furniture & Objects
SIDCUP AUCTION ROOMS (14
Church Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA14
6BX. Tel: +44 (0)20 8302 4565)
Antiques & Collectables, 11.00
TENNANTS AUCTIONEERS (The
Auction Centre, Leyburn, North
Yorkshire, DL8 5SG. Tel: +44
(0)1969 623780) An Attic Sale,
10.00
THE AUCTION CENTRE (9 Berkeley
Court, Manor Park, Runcorn,
Cheshire, WA7 1TQ. Tel: +44
(0)1928 579796) Antiques,
Collectables & Fine Art, 09.30
W. & H. PEACOCK (Bedford Auction
Centre, 26 Newnham Street,
Bedford, MK40 3JR. Tel: +44
(0)1234 266366) 20th Century
Design, Furniture & Collectors’
Items, 10.30
WELLERS AUCTIONEERS (Unit G,
Gaywood Farm, Edenbridge, Kent,
TN8 6SL. Tel: +44 (0)1483 802280)
A Collection of Architectural
Antiques, Period & Modern
Garden Statuary to Be Auctioned
Unreserved (NPL)
SUNDAY
MAY 17
1818 AUCTIONEERS (Junction 36,
Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands,
Cumbria, LA7 7FP. Tel: 0845 812
1818) Motoring & Transport Auction
ASTON’S (UK Slot Car Festival,
Heritage Motor Centre, Banbury
Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire, CV35
0BJ. Tel: +44 (0)1384 250220)
Scalextric & Slot-Car Auction, 10.00
HARROGATE AUCTION CENTRE
(Hammerain House, Beech Avenue,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2
8ER. Tel: 01423872202) Antiques
Sale
PAUL BEIGHTON AUCTIONEERS
(Woodhouse Green, Thurcroft,
Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66
9AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1709 700005)
Antiques, Collectables, Paintings &
Jewellery, 10.00
WESTENHANGER AUCTIONEERS
(Westenhanger Railway Station,
Stone Street, Stanford, Ashford,
Kent, TN25 6DE. Tel: +44 (0)1303
813545 / +44 (0)7779 995117)
Antiques & Collectables with
Vintage Wine, Port & Spirits, 11.00
MONDAY
MAY 18
BANK HALL AUCTIONS (Bank Hall
Works, Off Colne Road, Burnley,
Lancashire, BB10 3AT. Tel: +44
(0)1282 435435) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
BONINGTONS AUCTIONEERS
& VALUERS (Ambrose House,
Old Station Road, Loughton,
Essex, IG10 4PE. Tel: +44 (0)20
8508 4800) Rock ‘n’ Roll & Film
Memorabilia
CRITERION AUCTIONEERS (53 Essex
Road, Islington, London, N1 2SF.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7359 5707) General
Antiques, Modern & Reproduction
Furniture, 15.00
CRITERION AUCTIONEERS (41-47
Chatfield Road, Wandsworth,
London, SW11 3SE. Tel: +44 (0)20
7228 5563) General Antiques,
Decorative Items, Modern &
Reproduction Furniture, 12.00
STACEY’S AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Essex Auction Rooms, 37
Websters Way, Rayleigh, Essex,
SS6 8JQ. Tel: +44 (0)1268 777122)
Two-Day Antiques, Jewellery &
Collectables with Oriental Category
TUESDAY
MAY 19
ADAMS (26 St. Stephens Green
North, Dublin, 2. Tel: +353 1 676
0261) Fine Jewellery & Watches,
18.00
ALDRIDGES (Phoenix House, Lower
Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2
9ES. Tel: +44 (0)1225 462830)
Victorian & General Household
Furniture & Effects
ANDREW SMITH & SON (The
Auction Rooms, Manor Farm,
Itchen Stoke, Winchester, SO24
0QT. Tel: +44 (0)1962 735988) Fine
Art, Antiques & Interiors
BONHAMS KNIGHTSBRIDGE
(Montpelier Galleries, Montpelier
Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW7
1HH. Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900)
A: Scientific, Technological &
Mechanical Musical Instruments
B: Watches & Wristwatches
FELLOWS (Augusta House, 19
Augusta Street, Birmingham,
West Midlands, B18 6JA. Tel: +44
(0)1212 122131) Pocket Watches &
Accessories, 10.00
BONHAMS OXFORD (Banbury Road,
Shipton-on-Cherwell, Kidlington,
Oxfordshire, OX5 1JH. Tel: +44
(0)1865 853640) Jewellery
GORRINGES (Garden Street,
Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XE. Tel:
+44 (0)1273 478221 / 472503)
Antiques, General Furniture &
Effects, 10.30
BRETTELLS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Auction Rooms, Rear
of 58 High Street, Newport,
Shropshire, TF10 7AQ. Tel: +44
(0)1952 815925) Collectables &
General Sale, 10.00
GRAHAM BUDD AUCTIONS
(Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street,
London, W1A 2AA. Tel: +44 (0)20
8366 2525) Sporting Memorabilia
HIGH ROAD AUCTIONS TW1 (55-61
Heath Road, Twickenham, TW1
4AW. Tel: +44 (0)20 8400 5225)
Antiques, Interiors & Collectables,
18.00
KIRKHAM AUCTION CENTRE
(31 Blackpool Road, Kirkham,
Preston, Lancashire, PR4 2RE. Tel:
01772685178) Antiques & General
Sale, 11.00
KRUGER GIBBONS (Unit 6, Price
Street Business Centre, Price Street,
Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41
4JQ. Tel: +44 (0)151 653 8877)
General Auction
HEGARTY FINE ART & ANTIQUES
AUCTIONEERS (Parnell Business
Park, The Bypass, Bandon, Co.
Cork. Tel: +353 23 885 2910)
Antiques & Fine Art
MALLAMS (Dunmore Court, Wotton
Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire,
OX13 6BH. Tel: +44 (0)1235
462840) The House & Garden Sale
LOCKDALES (52 Barrack Square,
Martlesham Heath, Ipswich,
Suffolk, IP5 3RF. Tel: +44 (0)1473
627110) Coins & Collectables
MILLTOWN AUCTION ROOMS
(Milltown, Dromiskin, Dundalk,
Co. Louth. Tel: +33 42 938 2890)
Important Period House Contents
Clearance Auction, 17.00
LOTS ROAD AUCTIONS (71-73 Lots
Road, London, SW10 0RN.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7376 6800)
A: Contemporary & Modern Design
Furniture & Fittings, 12.00
B: Selected Antiques, Reproduction
Furniture, Works of Art, Carpets,
Textiles & Other Decorative Items,
15.00
PUMP HOUSE AUCTIONS (Soberton
Pumping Station, Wickham Road,
Swanmore, Hampshire, SO32 2QF.
Tel: +44 (0)1329 836659) Antiques,
General, Silver & Jewellery Auction
MORGAN O’DRISCOLL (Tel: +353
28 22338) ‘Off the Wall’ Online Art
Auction
OAKHAM AUCTION CENTRE (16b
Pillings Road, Oakham, Rutland,
Leicestershire, LE15 6QF. Tel: +44
(0)1572 723569) Antiques Sale,
10.00
CHISWICK AUCTIONS (1 Colville
Road, London, W3 8BL. Tel: +44
(0)20 8992 4442) Stamps, Coins &
Banknotes followed by the General
Sale
CHORLEY’S (Prinknash Abbey Park,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL4
8EU. Tel: +44 (0)1452 344499) Fine
Art & Antiques, 10.00
CHRISTIE’S SOUTH KENSINGTON
(85 Old Brompton Road, London,
SW7 3LD. Tel: +44 (0)20 7930
6074) Christie’s Interiors
CURR & DEWAR AUCTIONEERS
(Unit E, 6 North Isla Street,
Dundee, DD3 7JQ. Tel: +44
(0)1382 833974) Antiques
DAVID LAY AUCTIONS (The
Penzance Auction House, Alverton,
Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4RE. Tel:
+44 (0)1736 361414) Victorian &
Modern Furniture & Effects
DREWEATTS DONNINGTON PRIORY
(Donnington Priory Salerooms,
Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 2JE. Tel:
+44 (0)1635 553553) Fine Chinese
Ceramics & Asian Works of Art
FONSIE MEALY AUCTIONEERS
(Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde
Street, Kilkenny City, Co. Kilkenny.
Tel: + 353 56 44 41229 / +353 44
41413 / Enquiries +353 87 275
1361) Rare Books, 09.30
GARY DON (Curtis Buildings,
Berking Road (off York Road),
Leeds, LS9 9LF. Tel: +44 (0)113
248 3333) A Special Auction of
Fine Antique Gold, Silver and Later
Coins, Stamps, Postcards, Rare
Sporting Items to include Very Rare
Rugby Medals, Caps, Rugby and
Football programmes, Fishing and
other Sporting Items
SHELBY’S AUCTIONEERS (Westfield
House, Broad Lane, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS13 3HA. Tel: +44
(0)113 250 2626) General
GILDINGS AUCTIONEERS (63 Morris
Road, Leicester, LE2 6BR. Tel:
+44 (0)1858 410414) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
SPINK & SON (69 Southampton
Row, London, WC1B 4ET. Tel: +44
(0)20 7563 4000) Western Australia
From The Vestey Collection
GRAHAM BUDD AUCTIONS
(Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street,
London, W1A 2AA. Tel: +44 (0)20
8366 2525) Sporting Memorabilia
ST. JAMES’S AUCTIONS
(KNIGHTSBRIDGE COINS) (43 Duke
Street, London, SW1Y 6DD. Tel:
+44 (0)20 7930 7597 / 7888 /
8215) The Park House Collection
H.J. PUGH & CO. (Newmarket
House, Market Street, Ledbury,
Herefordshire, HR8 2AQ. Tel: +44
(0)1531 631122) Antique & Later
Furniture & Effects
HAMPSTEAD AUCTIONS (Tel: +44
(0)20 7431 9445) Jewellery, Silver &
Antiques Online Only Auction Closes
Today, 10.30
HARROW AUCTIONS (Victoria
Hall, Sheepcote Road, Harrow,
Middlesex, HA1 2JE. Tel: +44
(0)7930 802631) Antiques,
Collectables & General, 18.30
HIGH ROAD AUCTIONS W4 (30-34
Chiswick High Road, London, W4
1TE. Tel: +44 (0)20 8400 5225)
Antiques, Interiors & Collectables,
18.00
HOLLOWAY’S (Banbury Auction
Rooms, 49 Parsons Street,
Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 5NB.
Tel: +44 (0)1295 817777) Antiques
& Fine Art
J.P. HUMBERT AUCTIONEERS
(Silverstone Business Park,
Towcester, Northamptonshire,
NN12 8TB. Tel: +44 (0)1327
359595) International Militaria
Sale, 17.00
JOHN WELDON AUCTIONEERS
(Unit 2, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar,
Dublin, 8. Tel: +353 (0) 6351114)
Important Jewellery Auction
KEYS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS (8
Market Place, Aylsham, Norwich,
NR11 6EH. Tel: +44 (0)1263
733195) Fine Antiques with Clocks
& Watches
KIDSON-TRIGG CHARTERED
SURVEYORS AND AUCTIONEERS
(Friars Estate Office & Auction
Rooms, Friars Farm, Highworth,
Swindon, SN6 7PZ. Tel: +44 (0)1793
861000) Oriental Sale, 11.00
KINGSLEY AUCTIONS (112-118
Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral,
CH47 3BG. Tel: +44 (0)151 632
5821) General, 10.00
MALLAMS (Dunmore Court, Wotton
Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire,
OX13 6BH. Tel: +44 (0)1235
462840) The House & Garden Sale
OMEGA AUCTIONS (Unit 3.5
Meadow Mill, Water Street,
Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 2BX.
Tel: +44 (0)161 865 0838) Rare &
Collectable Vinyl
ROGERS JONES & CO. (The
Saleroom, 33 Abergele Road,
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, LL29 7RU.
Tel: +44 (0)1492 532176) Vintage
& Clearance, 10.30
SMYTHES (The Auction Galleries,
174 Victoria Road West,
Cleverleys, Lancashire, FY5 3NE.
Tel: +44 (0)1253 852184) General,
10.00
STACEY’S AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Essex Auction Rooms, 37
Websters Way, Rayleigh, Essex,
SS6 8JQ. Tel: +44 (0)1268 777122)
Two-Day Antiques, Jewellery &
Collectables with Oriental Category
SWORDERS (Cambridge Road,
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex,
CM24 8GE. Tel: +44 (0)1279
817778) Asian Art
TAMLYNS (Market Street,
Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6
3BN. Tel: +44 (0)1278 445251)
Collectors’ Items
THOMSON RODDICK SCOTTISH
AUCTIONS (The Auction Centre,
Irongray Road, Dumfries, DG2 0JE.
Tel: +44 (0)1387 721635) Home
Furnishings & Interiors, 10.00
TOOVEY’S (Spring Gardens,
Washington, Pulborough, West
Sussex, RH20 3BS. Tel: +44 (0)1903
891955) Sale of Paper Collectables,
13.30
WINGETTS AUCTIONEERS (29 Holt
Street, Wrexham, Clwyd, LL13
8DH. Tel: +44 (0)1978 353553)
Antiques, Interiors & Collectables,
10.30
WOTTON AUCTION ROOMS
(Tabernacle Road, Wotton-underEdge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7EB.
Tel: +44 (0)1453 844733) Antiques
& Collectables
WEDNESDAY
MAY 20
ALEXANDERS AUCTIONEERS (8-9
Old Dalby Business Park, Station
Road, Old Dalby, Leicestershire,
LE14 3NJ. Tel: +44 (0)1664
668081) Antiques, Collectables,
Decorative Arts, Jewellery & Curios
ANDERSON & GARLAND (Anderson
House, Crispin Court, Newbiggin
Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5
1BF. Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000)
Town & County, 09.30
ANDREW HILDITCH & SON
(Hanover House, 1a The Square,
Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1AP.
Tel: +44 (0)1270 762048) General,
10.00
ANDREW SMITH & SON (The
Auction Rooms, Manor Farm,
Itchen Stoke, Winchester, SO24
0QT. Tel: +44 (0)1962 735988) Fine
Art, Antiques & Interiors
ANTHEMION AUCTIONS (15
Norwich Road, Cardiff, CF23 9AB.
Tel: +44 (0)29 2047 2444) Fine Art
& Antiques Sale
Antiques Trade Gazette
63
auction calendar
BAMFORDS AUCTIONEERS
(Peak Village Shopping Centre,
Chastworth Road, Rowsley,
Derbyshire, DE4 2JE. Tel: +44
(0)1629 730920) Victorian,
Edwardian & General, 10.30
BARRY HAWKINS (The Auction
Rooms, 15 Lynn Road, Downham
Market, Norfolk, PE38 9NL. Tel:
+44 (0)1366 387180) Antiques,
Collectables, Household Furniture &
Effects, 10.00
BELLMANS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (New Pound, Wisborough
Green, Billingshurst, Sussex, RH14
0AZ. Tel: +44 (0)1403 700858)
Antiques & Collectables
BONHAMS (101 New Bond Street,
London, W1S 1SR. Tel: +44 (0)20
7447 7447) Africa Now
BONHAMS KNIGHTSBRIDGE
(Montpelier Galleries, Montpelier
Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW7
1HH. Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900)
A: An Important Collection of
Cameras
B: Fine British Pottery & Porcelain
C: Fine Glass & Paperweights
BOURNE END AUCTION ROOMS
(Station Approach, Bourne End,
Buckinghamshire, SL8 5QH. Tel:
+44 (0)1628 531500) General
Sale, 10.30
BRIGHTWELLS (Easters Court,
Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6
0DE. Tel: +44 (0)1568 611122)
Wine, Port & Champagne
BURSTOW & HEWETT (Abbey
Auction Galleries, Lower Lake,
Battle, East Sussex, TN33 0AT. Tel:
+44 (0)1424 772374) Antiques Sale
CHELMSFORD AUCTION ROOMS
(42 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford,
Essex, CM2 0DZ. Tel: +44 (0)1245
354251) Antiques & Collectables,
10.00
CHORLEY’S (Prinknash Abbey Park,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL4
8EU. Tel: +44 (0)1452 344499) Fine
Art & Antiques, 10.00
HARTLEYS (Victoria Hall, Little Lane,
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8EA.
Tel: +44 (0)1943 816363) Victorian
& Later General Sale, 10.00
QUEENS ROAD AUCTIONS (9
Queens Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2
9ER. Tel: +44 (0)1392 256256)
Antiques & General, 10.00
WOOLLEY & WALLIS (51-61 Castle
Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1
3SU. Tel: +44 (0)1722 424500)
Asian Art, 09.30
J.P. HUMBERT AUCTIONEERS
(Silverstone Business Park,
Towcester, Northamptonshire,
NN12 8TB. Tel: +44 (0)1327
359595) Antiques & Jewellery,
17.00
ROSS AUCTION ROOMS (Netherton
Road, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire,
HR9 7QQ. Tel: +44 (0)1989
762225) Antiques & Effects
WOTTON AUCTION ROOMS
(Tabernacle Road, Wotton-underEdge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7EB.
Tel: +44 (0)1453 844733) Antiques
& Collectables
JEFFERYS (5 Fore Street,
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0BP.
Tel: +44 (0)1208 871947) Antique
& Modern Furniture & Effects
KEYS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(8 Market Place, Aylsham,
Norwich, NR11 6EH.
Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195)
A: Fine Antiques with Clocks &
Watches
B: Wine
KIDSON-TRIGG CHARTERED
SURVEYORS AND AUCTIONEERS
(Friars Estate Office & Auction
Rooms, Friars Farm, Highworth,
Swindon, SN6 7PZ. Tel: +44 (0)1793
861000) Antiques & Interiors with
Specialist Modern Pictures, 10.00
LAWRENCES AUCTIONEERS
(The Linen Yard, South Street,
Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8AB.
Tel: +44 (0)1460 73041) General
Sale
MAXWELLS (The Auction Rooms,
Levens Road, Hazel Grove,
Cheshire, SK7 5DL.
Tel: +44 (0)161 439 5182)
A: Estate Clearance & Vintage,
10.00
B: Antiques to include Ceramics,
Silver, Jewellery, Collectables &
Furniture, 12.00
MCCUBBING & REDFERN (Wells
Auction Rooms, 66-68 Southover,
Wells, Somerset, BA5 1UH. Tel: +44
(0)1749 678099) Fine Art, Antiques
& Collectables, 13.00
CHRISTIE’S (8 King Street, London,
SW1Y 6QT. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839
9060) From Roentgen to Fabergé:
A European Private Collection
NEALS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(26 Church Street, Woodbridge,
Suffolk, IP12 1DP. Tel: +44 (0)1394
382263) Antique Furniture, Silver &
Plate, Jewellery, Pictures & Prints,
China & Glass, Military Items &
Miscellanea, 10.30
CHRISTIE’S SOUTH KENSINGTON
(85 Old Brompton Road, London,
SW7 3LD. Tel: +44 (0)20 7930
6074) Christie’s Interiors
NESBITS (7 Clarendon Road,
Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire,
PO5 2ED. Tel: +44 (0)23 9229
5568) Antiques & Collectables
CUTTLESTONES AUCTIONEERS (1
Clarence Street, off Waterloo Road,
Wolverhampton, WV1 4JL. Tel:
+44 (0)1902 421985) Antiques &
Home Sale
NETHERHAMPTON SALEROOMS
(Salisbury Auction Centre, Salisbury
Road, Netherhampton, Wiltshire,
SP2 8RH. Tel: +44 (0)1722 342045)
Carpets, Rugs & Textiles
DENHAM’S (Horsham Auction
Galleries, Dorking Road (on the
A24), Warnham, Sussex, RH12
3RZ. Tel: +44 (0)1403 255699 /
+44 (0)1403 253837) Secondary
Antiques, General Household &
Vintage Effects, 10.00
NOCK DEIGHTON (The Auction
Centre, Tasley, Bridgnorth,
Shropshire, WV16 4QR. Tel: +44
(0)1746 762666) Antiques, Fine Art
& Collectables
GOLDING YOUNG & MAWER
(Auction Rooms, Dunston House,
Portland Street, Lincoln, LN5
7NN. Tel: +44 (0)1522 524984)
Collective Sale
GROUNDS & CO. (2 Nene Quay,
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13
1AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1945 580713)
Household Effects, 09.30
HALLS FINE ART AUCTIONEERS
(Halls Holdings House, Bowmen
Way, Shrewsbury, SY4 3DR. Tel:
+44 (0)1743 450700) Interiors
& Toys
O’ REILLY’S IAVI (126 Francis Street,
Dublin, 8. Tel: +353 1 453 0311)
Auction of Fine Jewellery, Antiques
& Collectables
PETER FRANCIS (Towyside
Salerooms, Old Station Road,
Carmarthen, SA31 1JN. Tel:
+44 (0)1267 233456) Fine Art &
Antiques
PLYMOUTH AUCTION ROOMS
(Faraday Mill Trade Park, Cattewater
Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 0SE.
Tel: +44 (0)1752 254740) Specialist
Bi-Monthly Collectors' Auction,
10.30
SOTHEBY’S (34-35 New Bond
Street, London, W1A 2AA. Tel:
+44 (0)20 7293 5000) 19th & 20th
Century Sculpture
SPINK & SON (69 Southampton
Row, London, WC1B 4ET.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000)
A: Swaziland, The Award-Winning
Collection formed by Peter Van Der
Molen, RDPSA, FRPSL
B: The Philatelic Collectors’ Series
Sale
ST. JAMES’S AUCTIONS
(KNIGHTSBRIDGE COINS) (43 Duke
Street, London, SW1Y 6DD. Tel:
+44 (0)20 7930 7597 / 7888 /
8215) British & Foreign Coins
THURSDAY
MAY 21
ALEXANDERS AUCTIONEERS (8-9
Old Dalby Business Park, Station
Road, Old Dalby, Leicestershire,
LE14 3NJ. Tel: +44 (0)1664
668081) Antiques, Collectables,
Decorative Arts, Jewellery & Curios
AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS
(Station Road, Amersham on the
Hill, Buckinghamshire, HP7 0AH.
Tel: +44 (0)1494 729292) 19th
Century & Later Furnishings, Objects
of Desire, 10.30
BANGOR AUCTIONS (1 Greenway
Business Park, Conlig, Bangor, Co.
Down, BT23 7SU. Tel: +44 (0)28
9145 0494) General Household,
18.00
SWORDERS (Cambridge Road,
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex,
CM24 8GE. Tel: +44 (0)1279
817778) Interiors, 10.00
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TOOVEY’S (Spring Gardens,
Washington, Pulborough, West
Sussex, RH20 3BS. Tel: +44 (0)1903
891955) Three-Day Sale of Antiques,
Fine Art & Collectors’ Items
BELLMANS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (New Pound, Wisborough
Green, Billingshurst, Sussex, RH14
0AZ. Tel: +44 (0)1403 700858)
Antiques & Collectables
TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND HASTINGS
(The Auction Hall, The Pantiles,
Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5QL. Tel:
+44 (0) 1892 459 865) Remaining
Paintings & Objects from the
Studios of Bernard Hailstone
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
(Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox
Street, London, W1S 1PP. Tel: +44
(0)20 7495 9494) Important Books,
Manuscripts & Works on Paper
WARREN & WIGNALL (The Mill,
Earnshaw Bridge, Leyland Lane,
Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 8PH.
Tel: +44 (0)1772 451430 / 453252)
Antiques Sale
WARRINGTON AUCTION (551
Europa Boulevard, Westbrook,
Warrington, WA5 7TP. Tel: +44
(0)1925 658833)
A: General Sale, 08.30
B: Antiques & Collectables Sale,
09.00
WARWICK & WARWICK (Chalon
House, Scar Bank, Millers Road,
Warwick, CV34 5DB. Tel: +44
(0)1926 499031) Postcards, Toys,
Cigarette Cards, Die-Cast, Model
Railways
CHARTERHOUSE AUCTIONEERS
(The Long Street Salerooms, Long
Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9
3BS. Tel: +44 (0)1935 812277)
Antiques, Silver, Jewellery, Watches
& Wine
CHRISTIE’S (8 King Street, London,
SW1Y 6QT. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839
9060) The English Collector
DREWEATTS BRISTOL (Saleroom 2,
Baynton Road, Bristol, BS3 2EB.
Tel: +44 (0)117 953 1603) Antique
& Later Furnishings, 10.00
EWBANK’S (The Burnt Common
Auction Rooms, London Road,
Woking, Surrey, GU23 7LN.
Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101)
A: The Sivyer Collection of Over
40,000 LPs, Vinyl & CDs
B: Toys & Collectables
FELLOWS (Augusta House,
19 Augusta Street, Birmingham,
West Midlands, B18 6JA.
Tel: +44 (0)1212 122131)
A: Jewellery, 11.00
B: Pawnbrokers’ Jewellery, 11.00
HANSONS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Heage Lane, Etwall,
Derbyshire, DE65 6LS. Tel: +44
(0)1283 733988) Antiques &
Collectors’ Auction
J.P. HUMBERT AUCTIONEERS
(Silverstone Business Park,
Towcester, Northamptonshire,
NN12 8TB. Tel: +44 (0)1327
359595) Antiques & Jewellery,
17.00
L.S. SMELLIE & SONS LTD. (4 Lower
Auchingramont Road, Hamilton,
Lanarkshire, ML3 6HW. Tel: +44
(0)1698 282007) Specialist Sales
LAWRENCES AUCTIONEERS
(The Linen Yard, South Street,
Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8AB.
Tel: +44 (0)1460 73041) Militaria,
Coins & Medals
LISNASKEA AUCTIONS (Unit 7,
Manderwood Park, Lisnaskea,
Co. Fermanagh, BT92 0FP. Tel: +44
(0)28 6772 4334) General Sale,
19.00
LOCKE & ENGLAND (12 Guy Street,
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,
CV32 4RT. Tel: +44 (0)1926
889100) Furniture & General
Effects, 11.00
MARTEL MAIDES AUCTIONS (The
Auction Rooms, 40 Cornet Street,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1LF.
Tel: +44 (0)1481 722700) Antiques
& Modern
ORPINGTON SALEROOMS (Unit
7, Tripes Farm, Chelsfield Lane,
Orpington, Kent (off at Junction
3/4 M25), BR6 7RS. Tel: +44
(0)1689 896678) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
PHILIP G. PYLE (South Street,
Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 9DT. Tel:
+44 (0)1837 810088) Antiques
PHILLIPS (30 Berkeley Square,
London, W1J 5BF. Tel: +44 (0)20
7318 4010) Photographs, 16.00
THOMSON RODDICK & MEDCALF
(Coleridge House, Shaddongate,
Carlisle, Cumbria, CA2 5TU. Tel:
+44 (0)1228 528939) Two-Day
Sale: Day 1 - Pictures Including
a Collection of Works by Stella
Steyn, Works by Cumbrian Artists &
Contemporary Pictures Followed by
Medals, Militaria & Arms
THOMSON RODDICK SCOTTISH
AUCTIONS (The Auction Centre,
Carnethie Street, Edinburgh, EH24
9AL. Tel: +44 (0)131 440 2448)
Collectors’ Sale to include Coins,
Medals & Toys, 10.30
TOOVEY’S (Spring Gardens,
Washington, Pulborough, West
Sussex, RH20 3BS. Tel: +44 (0)1903
891955) Three-Day Sale of Antiques,
Fine Art & Collectors’ Items
TORRIDGE AUCTIONS (The Lion
Store, 19 Barnstaple Street, Eastthe-Water, Bideford, Devon, EX39
4AE. Tel: +44 (0)1237 471955)
General Household, 10.00
W. & H. PEACOCK (75 New Street,
St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19
1AJ. Tel: +44 (0)1480 474550)
Furniture & General Effects, 11.00
WOOLLEY & WALLIS (51-61 Castle
Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1
3SU. Tel: +44 (0)1722 424500)
Asian Art, 09.30
FRIDAY
MAY 22
BELLMANS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (New Pound, Wisborough
Green, Billingshurst, Sussex, RH14
0AZ. Tel: +44 (0)1403 700858)
Antiques & Collectables
BRIGHTON GENERAL AUCTIONS
(Premier Suite, Brighton Racecourse,
Freshfield Road, Brighton, BN2
9ZX. Tel: +44 (0)1273 917118)
General Sale, 10.00
CHARTERHOUSE AUCTIONEERS
(The Long Street Salerooms, Long
Street, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9
3BS. Tel: +44 (0)1935 812277)
Antiques, Silver, Jewellery, Watches
& Wine
CHRISTIE’S (8 King Street, London,
SW1Y 6QT. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839
9060) 20/21 Photographs:
Photographs Selected by James
Danziger
REEMAN DANSIE (Incorporating
Kingsford Auctions, 8 Wyncolls
Road, Severalls Business Park,
Colchester, Essex, CO4 9HU.
Tel: +44 (0)1206 754754) Coins,
Weapons & Militaria, 10.00
DAVID STANLEY AUCTIONS
(Hermitage Leisure Centre, Silver
Street, Coalville, Leicestershire,
LE67 5EU. Tel: +44 (0)1530
222320) Antique & Modern
Woodworking Tools & Allied Trades
Tools
SHOULER & SON (County Auction
Rooms, King’s Road, Melton
Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1QF.
Tel: +44 (0)1664 560181) General
Household & Collectables
DUKE’S (Fine Art Salerooms,
Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester,
Dorset, DT1 1QS. Tel: +44 (0)1305
265080) Asian Art
SOTHEBY’S (34-35 New Bond
Street, London, W1A 2AA. Tel: +44
(0)20 7293 5000) 19th Century
European Paintings
SPECIAL AUCTION SERVICES
(81 Greenham Business Park,
Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 6HW.
Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595) Express
Camera Auction
SPINK & SON (69 Southampton
Row, London, WC1B 4ET. Tel: +44
(0)20 7563 4000) The Philatelic
Collectors’ Series Sale
EWBANK’S (The Burnt Common
Auction Rooms, London Road,
Woking, Surrey, GU23 7LN. Tel:
+44 (0)1483 223101) Fine Wines
& Spirits
HANSONS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Heage Lane, Etwall,
Derbyshire, DE65 6LS. Tel: +44
(0)1283 733988) Antiques &
Collectors’ Auction
JF & DAUGHTERS (3 High Street,
Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8DA. Tel:
+44 (0)1372 738054) Curiosities,
Antiques, Collectables, Silver &
Pawnbrokers, 12.00
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KLM AUCTIONEERS (Unit 22,
Moderna Business Park, Moderna
Way, Mytholmroyd, West
Yorkshire, HX7 5QQ. Tel: +44 77
5943057) Auction of Antiques,
Collectables & Household Goods,
10.00
BERKSHIRE AUCTION ROOMS
(Kennet Holme Farm, Bath Road,
Midgham, Reading, RG7 5UX. Tel:
+44 (0)118 971 4666) Antiques &
Collectables, 11.00
LAWRENCES AUCTIONEERS
(The Linen Yard, South Street,
Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8AB.
Tel: +44 (0)1460 73041) Collectors’
& Sporting
CHARLES ROSS FINE ART
AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS (The Old
Town Hall Salerooms, Woburn,
Bedfordshire, MK17 9PZ. Tel: +44
(0)1525 290502) Antiques &
Collectables, 10.00
M.W. DARWIN & SONS (The
Dales Furniture Hall, Bridge Street,
Bedale, North Yorkshire, DL8 2AD.
Tel: +44 (0)1677 422846) Antiques
& Collectables, 10.30
CHURCHGATE AUCTIONS (123
Scudamore Road, Leicester, LE3
1UQ. Tel: +44 (0)116 287 4856)
Victorian & Later Furniture &
Collectables, 09.30
MARTELLO PHILATELIC AUCTIONS
(The Old Auction Rooms, Marine
Walk Street, Hythe, Kent, TN24
8QQ. Tel: +44 (0) 1303 269 712)
Stamps, Philatelic Material & Coins
D. WOMBELL & SON (The Auction
Gallery, Northminster Business Park,
York, YO26 6QU. Tel: +44 (0)1904
790777) Antiques & General
MCTEAR’S (Meiklewood Gate,
Meiklewood Road, Glasgow,
Scotland, G51 4EU. Tel: +44 (0)141
810 2880) Interiors, 10.30
RYE AUCTION GALLERIES (Unit 36,
Rye Industrial Park, Harbour Road,
Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7TE. Tel:
+44 (0)1797 222650) General Sale
SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY
(Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. Tel: +44
(0)114 281 6161) Antiques &
Collectables Auction
SPINK & SON (69 Southampton
Row, London, WC1B 4ET. Tel: +44
(0)20 7563 4000) The Philatelic
Collectors’ Series Sale
THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS (The
Dales Saleroom, Levens Hall Park,
Lund Lane, Killinghall, Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, HG3 2BG. Tel: +44
(0)1423 709086) General Antiques
& Effects, 11.30
THOMSON RODDICK & MEDCALF
(Coleridge House, Shaddongate,
Carlisle, Cumbria, CA2 5TU. Tel:
+44 (0)1228 528939) Two-Day
Sale: Day 2 - Jewellery, Silver,
Ceramics, Glass, Antiques, Oriental
& Other Works of Art
TOOVEY’S (Spring Gardens,
Washington, Pulborough, West
Sussex, RH20 3BS. Tel: +44 (0)1903
891955) Three-Day Sale of Antiques,
Fine Art & Collectors’ Items
TW GAZE (Diss Auction Rooms,
Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22
4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306)
Antiques
WESSEX AUCTION ROOMS
(Westbrook Farm, Draycot Cerne,
Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH.
Tel: +44 (0)1249 720888) Toys,
Cars, Trains, Dolls & Teddies
SATURDAY
MAY 23
NETHERHAMPTON SALEROOMS
(Salisbury Auction Centre, Salisbury
Road, Netherhampton, Wiltshire,
SP2 8RH. Tel: +44 (0)1722 342045)
Southern Counties Sporting Goods
Sale
Weekly auctions in the UK and Ireland
We have taken every care to ensure that this list of weekly sales is accurate.
The list is intended to reflect sales that take place every week, with Christmas and
Easter being possible exceptions. If the list is incomplete or inaccurate, please advise
Jessica Thomas on 020 3725 5609 or email [email protected]
PSP AUCTIONS (Auction House,
Main Street, Tingewick,
Buckinghamshire, MK18 4NL. Tel:
+44 (0)1280 848843) General Sale
We strongly advise that you check with the saleroom concerned before travelling
any great distance in case of cancellations or postponements. We also request that
auctioneers continue to advise us of any changes. Naturally, Antiques Trade Gazette
cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions.
MONDAYS
DAVID DUGGLEBY (The Saleroom,
Vine Street, Scarborough, North
Yorkshire, YO11 1XN. Tel: +44
(0)1723 507111) Antiques &
Interiors
DEE, ATKINSON & HARRISON (The
Exchange Saleroom, Exchange
Street, Driffield, East Yorkshire,
YO25 6LD. Tel: +44 (0)1377
253151) Victorian & General
Auction
DUMFRIES AUCTION HALL
(Greyfriars Hall, 117 Irish Street,
Dumfries, DG1 2NP. Tel: +44
(0)1387 266804) General Sale,
11.00
GORDON DAY & PARTNERS
(Bowens Yard, Park Corner,
Knockholt, Kent, TN14 7JE. Tel:
+44 (0)1959 533263) General
Furniture & Tools, 10.00
GREAT WESTERN AUCTIONS (1291
Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G14
9UY. Tel: +44 (0)141 954 1500)
Antiques & Collectables
GREENWICH AUCTIONS
PARTNERSHIP (47 Old Woolwich
Road, London, SE10 9PP. Tel: +44
(0)20 8853 2121) Weekly Auction,
11.00
HANSONS AUCTIONEERS &
VALUERS (Heage Lane, Etwall,
Derbyshire, DE65 6LS. Tel: +44
(0)1283 733988) Antiques &
Collectors’ Auction
HARRISONS AUCTION CENTRE
(Unit 5, Thorney Road, Nene Terrace,
Crowland, Peterborough, PE6 0LD.
Tel: +44 (0)1733 211789) Live
Online General Sale
J.S. AUCTIONS (Cotefield Saleroom,
Oxford Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire,
OX15 4AQ. Tel: +44 (0)1295
272488) Antiques & Interiors
ACORN AUCTIONS (Below Unit
R, The Maltings, Station Road,
Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire,
CM21 9JX. Tel: +44 (0)1279
726398) Antiques, Collectables &
General
JOHN NICHOLSON’S (The Auction
Rooms, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst,
Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 3HA. Tel:
+44 (0)1428 653727) General &
Fine Antique Auction, 11.00
ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS (The
Nottingham Auction Centre,
Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2
3GY. Tel: +44 (0)115 986 9128)
A: Antique & Later Collectables
B: Antique & Later Furniture
KIDSON-TRIGG CHARTERED
SURVEYORS AND AUCTIONEERS
(Friars Estate Office & Auction
Rooms, Friars Farm, Highworth,
Swindon, SN6 7PZ. Tel: +44 (0)1793
861000) Specialist Book Sale, 10.00
PURCELL AUCTIONEERS (Green
Street, Birr, Co. Offaly. Tel: +353
57 912 0711) Antiques, Fine Art &
Collectors’ Items, 10.00
BENNICKS AUCTION 07866128167
Summercourt, Cornwall
CLARKE & SIMPSON 01728 746323
Woodbridge, Suffolk
RAILTONS (The Northern Auction
Centre, 5 South Road, Wooler,
Northumberland, NE71 6SN. Tel:
+44 (0)1668 283000) Estate Sale
RINGWOOD AUCTIONS (The Close,
Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 1LA.
Tel: +44 (0)1425 480178) Antiques
& Collectables, 10.00
SHEFFIELD AUCTION GALLERY
(Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, S8 8UB. Tel: +44
(0)114 281 6161) Antiques, General
& Household Auction
SILVERSTONE AUCTIONS (The Wing,
Silverstone Circuit, Towcester,
Northampton, NN12 8TN. Tel: +44
(0)1926 691141) The May Sale
SILVERWOODS (Ribblesdale Centre,
Lincoln Way, Clitheroe, Lancashire,
BB7 1QD. Tel: +44 (0)1200 423322)
Rural & Domestic Bygones Sale,
10.00
SOTHEBY’S (34-35 New Bond
Street, London, W1A 2AA. Tel: +44
(0)20 7293 5000) Photographs
THOMAS R. CALLAN (22 Smith
Street (opposite Ayr Railway
Station), Ayr, KA7 1TF. Tel: +44
(0)1292 267681) Fine Art &
Antiques Sale
TOOGOOD & MAY AUCTIONEERS
(The Delta Works, Salisbury Road,
Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire,
SP9 7UN. Tel: +44 (0)1980 846000)
Household & Modern Interior Sales
TRING MARKET AUCTIONS (Brook
Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23
5EF. Tel: +44 (0)1442 826446)
General Antiques, 09.30
TW GAZE (Diss Auction Rooms,
Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22
4LN. Tel: +44 (0)1379 650306)
Rural & Domestic Bygones
UNIQUE AUCTIONS (Unit E, Hillcroft
Business Park, Whisby Road,
Lincoln, LN6 3QT. Tel: +44 (0)1522
695820) Antiques & Collectors’ Sale
W. & H. PEACOCK (Bedford
Auction Centre, 26 Newnham
Street, Bedford, MK40 3JR. Tel:
+44 (0)1234 266366) Furniture &
General Effects, 10.30
WILLINGHAM AUCTIONS (25 High
Street, Willingham, Cambridge,
CB24 5ES. Tel: +44 (0)1954
261252) Antiques & Collectables
FREDERICK ANDREWS
Sheerness, Kent
01795 662741
BELFAST AUCTIONS
Belfast
028 9077 1552
THE BIDDERS AUCTION ROOM
Guiseley
0113 250 2626
CRITERION
020 7359 5707
020 7228 5563
London
GORRINGES
01273 478221
Lewes, East Sussex
H & H AUCTIONS
Carlisle, Cumbria
01228 640927
KEYS
Aylsham, Norfolk
01263 733195
PEMBRIDGE AUCTIONS
0775 414 6110
Whitchurch, Shropshire
KIRKHAM AUCTION CENTRE
Preston
01772685178
L.S. SMELLIE & SON 01698 282007
Hamilton, Lanarkshire
SOUTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS
London
020 8886 7888
HIGH ROAD AUCTIONS
Twickenham
020 8400 5225
DODD’S
Mold, Flintshire
01352 755 705
NORTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS
Newark, Notts
01636 605905
FABIAN R. EAGLE
01760 440284
Holywell Row, Norfolk
W & H PEACOCK
01480 474550
St. Neots, Cambridge
ELGIN AUCTION CENTRE
Elgin, Scotland
01343 547047
JOHN ROSS & CO
Belfast
GARRY M EMMS
01493 332668
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
THOMSON RODDICK SCOTTISH
AUCTIONS
0131 440 2448
Edinburgh, Scotland
HARTLEY’S FINE ART
Ilkley, W. Yorks
01943 816363
TRURO AUCTION CENTRE
Redruth, Cornwall 01209 822266
KINGSLAND AUCTIONS
01568 708564
Leominster, Herefordshire
WILFORDS
01933 222760
Wellingborough, Northants
LAWRENCES, CREWKERNE
Crewkerne, Somerset 01460 73041
01945 584609
TURNER & SONS
Liverpool
JOHN MILNE
Aberdeen
01224 639336
FRIDAYS
NORTHGATE AUCTION ROOMS
Newark, Notts
01636 605905
PINE LODGE AUCTIONS
01337 827007
Fife, Scotland
SILVERWOODS
01200 423322
Lincoln Way, Clitheroe
SHOBROOK AUCTIONS
01752 663341
Plymouth, Devon
SWORDERS
01279 817778
Stansted Mountﬁtchet, Essex
TUESDAYS
BLOOMFIELD AUCTIONS
Belfast
028 9045 6404
BRETTELLS
01952 815925
Newport, Shropshire
WARREN & WIGNALL
Leyland, Lancs
01772 453252
WARWICK AUCTION 02476 223377
Coventry, W. Midlands
0151 709 5559
WIRRAL AUCTION CENTRE
Wallasey, Wirral 0151 630 5441
CHISWICK AUCTIONS
London
020 8992 4442
WOODCOCK AUCTIONS
07921 789 536
Wallington, London
CATO CRANE
Liverpool
HIGH ROAD AUCTIONS
London
020 8400 5225
PETER WILSON
01270 623878
Nantwich, Cheshire
MAXEY & SON
Wisbech, Cambs
THOMAS N. MILLER 0191 265 8080
Newcastle upon Tyne
02890 325448
0151 709 4005
CRUSO & WILKIN
01485 542656
Kings Lynn, Norfolk
HILDERSTONE AUCTIONS
Hilderstone, Staffs 07748 284525
JACKSON GREEN & PRESTON
01472 311115
Grimsby, S. Humberside
MCTEARS
0141 810 2880
Glasgow, Scotland
MEWS AUCTIONS
01594 544769
Mitcheldean, Glos.
NETHERHAMPTON SALEROOMS
Salisbury, Wiltshire 01722 340041
THOMPSON’S AUCTIONEERS
Harrogate, N. Yorks 01423 709086
SATURDAYS
CHURCHGATE AUCTIONS
Leicester
0116 287 4856
ERISWELL HALL BARNS AUCTION
CENTRE
01638 533335
Lakenheath, Suffolk
GREENWICH AUCTION PARTNERSHIP
London
020 8853 2121
S.J. HALES
01626 836684
Bovey Tracey, Devon
THOMAS N. MILLER
THURSDAYS
HERTFORDSHIRE AUCTIONS
St. Albans
01727 846090
0191 265 8080
Newcastle upon Tyne
AMERSHAM AUCTION ROOMS
Amersham, Bucks 01494 729292
ARTHUR JOHNSON & SONS
Nottingham
0115 986 9128
STEPHEN ROBERTS
Watton, Norfolk
01953 885676
JAMES BECK AUCTIONS
Fakenham, Norfolk 01328 851557
MAXEY & SON
Wisbech, Cambs
01945 584609
020 7349 0011
THOMAS R CALLAN 01292 267681
Ayrshire, Scotland
W & H PEACOCK
Bedford
01234 266366
WATSONS
01435 862132
Heathﬁeld, Sussex
SIMON CHARLES
0161 339 9449
Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire
RAMSAY CORNISH 0131 553 7000
Edinburgh, Scotland
WINGETTS
Wrexham, Wales
J.C. FEATONBY
Whitley Bay
STANFORDS
Colchester, Essex
FRANCIS SMITH
London
01978 353553
0191 252 2601
01206 842156
WEDNESDAYS
GODSTONE AUCTIONS
Godstone, Surrey 07956 839282
SUNDAYS
BOURNE END
01628 531500
Bourne End, Bucks
HALLS FINE ART
Shrewsbury
ASH AUCTIONS
Stoke-on-Trent
BULSTRODES
01202 482244
Christchurch, Dorset
HERMAN & WILKINSON
Dublin, Ireland 003531 497 2245
CHARNOCK AUCTIONS
01257 450606
Charnock Richard, Lancashire
SIMON CHARLES
0161 339 9449
Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire
LOCKE & ENGLAND 01926 889100
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
LOTS ROAD
London
COOPER & TANNER 01373 831010
Frome, Somerset
MITCHELLS
01900 827800
Cockermouth, Cumbria
PORTOBELLO AUCTIONS
London
07904 630122
01743 284 777
01782 868061
020 7376 6800
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SAUNDERS MARKETS LTD. Antiques,
Collectables & Bric a Brac Sale,
7am-2pm at The Exchange, Market
Access Road, off Waterhouse Street,
Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1ET.
FRIDAY
MAY 8
ANTIQUE DEALERS FAIR LIMITED.
Tel: 01797 252030. The Petworth
Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair, 11am8pm at Petworth Park, Petworth
House, Petworth, West Sussex,
GU28 0QY.
(Day 1 of 3)
CRISPIN FAIRS. Tel: 07710 620968.
Watts on Friday Collectors Fair &
Flea Market, 9am-3pm at Watts Hall,
Christchurch, Uxbridge, UB8 1SZ.
GALLOWAY ANTIQUES FAIR.
Tel: 01423 522122. Arley Hall
Antiques Fair, 10.30am-5pm at
Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire,
CW9 6NA.
(Day 1 of 3)
IACF. Tel: 01636 702326. Shepton
Mallet Antiques & Collectors Fair,
12pm-5pm at Royal Bath & West
Showground, Shepton Mallet,
Somerset, BA4 6QN.
(Day 1 of 3)
SATURDAY
MAY 9
ANTIQUE DEALERS FAIR LIMITED.
Tel: 01797 252030. The Petworth
Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair,
10.30am-6.30pm at Petworth Park,
Petworth House, Petworth, West
Sussex, GU28 0QY.
(Day 2 of 3)
ANTIQUES 2 GO. Tel: 01327
871797. Antiques on the Square,
9am-5pm at Northampton Town
Square, Northampton, NN1 2DL.
B2B EVENTS. Tel: 07774 147197.
Edinburgh Antiques & Collectors
Fair, 8.15am-4.30pm at The
Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston,
Edinburgh, Scotland, EH28 8NB.
(Day 1 of 2)
C-LIVE ANTIQUES FAIR. Antiques,
Collectables & Vintage Fair,
10am-4pm at Reepham & Cherry
Willingham Village Hall, Hawthorn
Road, Reepham, Lincoln, LN3 4DU.
GALLOWAY ANTIQUES FAIR.
Tel: 01423 522122. Arley Hall
Antiques Fair, 10.30am-5pm at
Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire,
CW9 6NA.
(Day 2 of 3)
IACF. Tel: 01636 702326. Shepton
Mallet Antiques & Collectors Fair,
9am-5pm at Royal Bath & West
Showground, Shepton Mallet,
Somerset, BA4 6QN.
(Day 2 of 3)
PANAMA FAIRS. Tel: 07780 111953.
Antiques, Vintage and Collectables
Market, 9.30am-3.30pm at The Lord
Riddell Memorial Hall, Dean’s Lane,
Walton-on-the-Hill, nr Tadworth,
Surrey, KT20 7UL.
SIMPLY THE BEST ANTIQUE FAIRS.
Tel: 07581 397721. Antique and
Collectors Fair, 9.15am-4pm at
St Mary’s Church Hall, Betws-yCoed, North Wales, LL24 0AD.
SUNDAY
MAY 10
ADAMS ANTIQUES FAIRS. Tel: 020
7254 4054. Royal Horticultural Hall
Antiques Fair, 10am-4.30pm at
Lindley Hall, near Elverton Street, 80
Vincent Square, Chelsea, London,
SW1P 2PE.
ANTIQUE DEALERS FAIR LIMITED.
Tel: 01797 252030. The Petworth
Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair,
10.30am-5pm at Petworth Park,
Petworth House, Petworth, West
Sussex, GU28 0QY.
(Day 3 of 3)
ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS.
Tel: 01298 27493. Lincoln Sunday
Antiques Market, 7am-3pm at
Lincolnshire Showground, Lincoln,
Lincolnshire, LN2 2NA.
B2B EVENTS. Tel: 07774 147197.
Edinburgh Antiques & Collectors
Fair, 10am-4pm at The Royal
Highland Centre, Ingliston,
Edinburgh, Scotland, EH28 8NB.
(Day 2 of 2)
ELEPHANT PROMOTIONS.
Tel: 07830 335319. Antiques &
Collectors Fair, 9am-3pm at Aston
Manor Road Transport Museum,
Shenston Drive, Northgate,
Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 8TP.
GALLOWAY ANTIQUES FAIR.
Tel: 01423 522122. Arley Hall
Antiques Fair, 10.30am-5pm at
Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire,
CW9 6NA.
(Day 3 of 3)
HADDON EVENTS. Tel: 07519
276507. Crook Log Antique &
Collectables Fair, 10am-4pm at
Crook Log Leisure Centre, Brampton
Road, Bexleyheath, DA7 4HH.
IACF. Tel: 01636 702326. Shepton
Mallet Antiques & Collectors Fair,
10am-4pm at Royal Bath & West
Showground, Shepton Mallet,
Somerset, BA4 6QN.
(Day 3 of 3)
LONDON COIN FAIRS LTD.
Tel: 01694 731781. The Midland
Coin Fair, 10am at National
Motorcycle Museum, Bickenhill,
Birmingham, B92 0EJ.
MIDAS FAIRS. Tel: 01494 674170.
Antiques Fair, 8.30am-4pm at The
Holiday Inn Hotel, Manor Lane,
Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2RA.
MISSING BOOK FAIRS. Tel: 01245
361 609. Peterborough Book
Fair, 10am-4pm at Highgate Hall,
Overend, Elton, Near Peterborough,
PE8 6RU.
PENNYFARTHING FAYRES.
Tel: 01438 813060. Antiques &
Collectors’ Fair, 10am-4pm at
Wyllyotts Theatre, Darkes Lane,
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6
2HN.
WEDNESDAY
MAY 13
SAUNDERS MARKETS LTD. Antiques,
Collectables & Bric a Brac Sale,
7am-2pm at The Exchange, Market
Access Road, off Waterhouse Street,
Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1ET.
THURSDAY
MAY 14
COOPER ANTIQUE FAIRS. Tel: 01278
784912. Buxton Antiques and
Fine Art Fair, 11am-5pm at Buxton
Pavilion, St Johns Road, Buxton,
Derbyshire, SK17 6XN.
(Day 1 of 4)
FRIDAY
MAY 15
ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS.
Tel: 01298 27493. Decorative Home
& Salvage Show, 10am-5pm at
Ripley Castle, near Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, HG3 3AY.
(Day 1 of 3)
PHOENIX FAIRS. Tel: 020 8950
3690. Antiques Fair, 10am-4pm at
Village Hall, Sarratt, Hertsfordshire,
WD3 6AS.
COOPER ANTIQUE FAIRS. Tel: 01278
784912. Buxton Antiques and
Fine Art Fair, 11am-5pm at Buxton
Pavilion, St Johns Road, Buxton,
Derbyshire, SK17 6XN.
(Day 2 of 4)
ROMAN FAIRS. Tel: 07771 725302.
Antique & Collectors Fair, 9.30am4pm at The Leisure Centre, Enville
Road, Kinver, DY7 6AA.
CRISPIN FAIRS. Tel: 07710 620968.
Watts on Friday Collectors Fair &
Flea Market, 9am-3pm at Watts Hall,
Christchurch, Uxbridge, UB8 1SZ.
SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS. Tel: 07816
220136. The Blackpool Antiques
& Collectors Fair, 9am-3.30pm at
The Hilton Hotel, North Promenade,
Blackpool, FY1 2JQ.
SATURDAY
MAY 16
SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS.
Tel: 07816 220136. Wolverhampton
Antiques Fair, 9am-3.30pm at
Wolverhampton Racecourse,
Dunstall Park, Wolverhampton,
WV6 0PE.
SPECIALIST GLASS FAIRS LTD.
Tel: 07887 762872. Glass Fair,
10.30am-4pm at The National
Motorcycle Museum, Coventry
Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West
Midlands, B92 0ED.
WORTHING LEISURE CENTRE.
Tel: 01903 502237. Antique
& Collectors Fair, 9.30am-3pm
at Worthing Leisure Centre,
Shaftesbury Avenue, Worthing,
West Sussex, BN12 4ET.
MONDAY
MAY 11
ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS.
Tel: 01298 27493. Donington
Antiques Market, 7.30am1pm at Donington Antiques
Market, Donington Park, Castle
Donington, Derby, DE74 2RP.
TUESDAY
MAY 12
SUNBURY ANTIQUES MARKET.
Tel: 01932 230946. Antiques &
Collectors’ Market, 6.30am-2pm
at Kempton Park Racecourse,
Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex,
TW16 5AQ.
ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS.
Tel: 01298 27493. Decorative Home
& Salvage Show, 10am-5pm at
Ripley Castle, near Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, HG3 3AY.
(Day 2 of 3)
BEAMINSTER FAIRS. Tel: 01297
24446. Beaminster Fairs, 9.30am4pm at The Town Hall, Fleet Street,
Beaminster, Dorset, DT8 3EF.
COOPER ANTIQUE FAIRS. Tel: 01278
784912. Buxton Antiques and
Fine Art Fair, 11am-5pm at Buxton
Pavilion, St Johns Road, Buxton,
Derbyshire, SK17 6XN.
(Day 3 of 4)
JOS EVENTS. Shrewsbury Flea,
8.30am-4.30pm at West Midlands
Showground, Gravel Hill Lane,
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2PF.
(Day 1 of 2)
MAINWARING’S SEASIDE
BROCANTES. Tel: 01227 773037.
Mainwaring’s Seaside Brocantes,
10am-4pm at St Mary’s Hall, Oxford
Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1DD.
THE VINTAGE BAZAAR. Tel: 01225
790585. The Vintage Bazaar Giant
Jumble, 9am-3pm at The Cheese
and Grain Hall, Frome, Somerset,
BA11 1BE.
SUNDAY
MAY 17
ANTIQUESINTENTS. Tel: 01544
267033 or 07974 356128. Quality
Antiques Fair, 10am-4pm at Burton
Court, Eardisland, Herefordshire,
HR6 9DN.
ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS.
Tel: 01298 27493. Decorative Home
& Salvage Show, 10am-5pm at
Ripley Castle, near Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, HG3 3AY.
(Day 3 of 3)
SAUNDERS MARKETS LTD. Antiques,
Collectables & Bric a Brac Sale,
7am-2pm at The Exchange, Market
Access Road, off Waterhouse Street,
Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1ET.
BATH VINTAGE & ANTIQUES
MARKET. Tel: 07723 611249.
Vintage & Antiques, 9.30am-4pm
at Green Park Station, Green Park
Road, Bath, BA1 1JB.
THURSDAY
MAY 21
COOPER ANTIQUE FAIRS. Tel: 01278
784912. Buxton Antiques and
Fine Art Fair, 11am-5pm at Buxton
Pavilion, St Johns Road, Buxton,
Derbyshire, SK17 6XN.
(Day 4 of 4)
DOVEHOUSE FINE ANTIQUES
FAIRS. Tel: 07952 689717. Dorking
Halls Antiques Fair, 8.30am-4pm
at Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey,
RH4 1SG.
GNB FAIRS. Tel: 01702 410171.
Country House Hotel Antiques
+ Collectors Fair, 10am-4pm at
Lyndford Hall, Mundford, Thetford,
Norfolk, IP26 5HW.
JAY FAIRS. Tel: 01235 815633.
Benson Antiques & Collectors Fair,
8am-4pm at Parish Hall, Benson,
Oxfordshire, OX10 6LZ.
JAY FAIRS. Tel: 01235 815633.
Benson Antiques & Collectors Fair,
8am-4pm at Parish Hall, Benson,
Oxfordshire, OX10 6LZ.
JOS EVENTS. Shrewsbury Flea,
8.30am-4.30pm at West Midlands
Showground, Gravel Hill Lane,
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2PF.
(Day 2 of 2)
LINDIFAYRE. Tel: 01895 634000 /
07710620968. Sunday Flea Market,
7.30am-2.30pm at Loddon Hall,
Twyford, Berks, RG10 9JA.
PANNIER ANTIQUES. Tel: 07973
803740. South Molton Pannier
Market, 10am-4pm at South Molton
Market, North Devon, EX36 3BU.
ROMAN FAIRS. Tel: 07771 725302.
Antique & Collectors Fair, 9.30am4pm at Shrewsbury Sports Village,
Shrewsbury, SY1 4RQ.
SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS.
Tel: 07816 220136. Liverpool
Antiques & Collectors Fair, 9am3.30pm at Greenbank Sports
Academy, Greenbank Lane,
Liverpool, L17 1AG.
UNIQUE AUCTIONS FAIR. Tel: 01522
684388. The Castle Hill Antiques
Fair, 10am-4pm at Antiques &
Collectors Market, Castle Hill,
Lincoln, LN1 3AA.
TUESDAY
MAY 19
WONDER WHISTLE LIMITED.
Tel: 020 7249 4050. Antiques Fair,
11am-4pm at The Exhibition Centre,
Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher,
Surrey, KT10 9AJ.
WEDNESDAY
MAY 20
ANTIQUE FORUM. Tel: 01782
393660. “Big Brum” Morning
Antiques Fair, 5.30am at St. Martin’s
Market (The Rag), Edgbaston Street,
Birmingham, West Midlands,
B5 4RQ.
LEGACY FAIRS. Tel: 07771 920780.
Antique & Collectors Market,
8am-2pm at Wendover Memorial
Hall, Wendover, Buckinghamshire,
HP22 6HF.
FRIDAY
MAY 22
CRISPIN FAIRS. Tel: 07710 620968.
Watts on Friday Collectors Fair &
Flea Market, 9am-3pm at Watts
Hall, Christchurch, Uxbridge,
UB8 1SZ.
SATURDAY
MAY 23
BOWMAN ANTIQUES FAIRS.
Tel: 01274 588505. The Yorkshire
Antiques & Art Fair, at Yorkshire
Event Centre , The Great Yorkshire
Showground, Harrogate, Yorkshire,
HG2 8QZ.
(Day 1 of 2)
DEVON COUNTY ANTIQUES FAIRS.
Tel: 01363 776600. Antiques Fair,
9am-4.30pm at Matford Centre,
Exeter Livestock Centre, Matford
Park Rd, Marsh Barton, Exeter,
EX2 8FD.
JAGUAR FAIRS LTD. Tel: 01332
830444. Antiques & Collectors Fair,
9am-4.30pm at The Roundhouse,
Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire,
DE24 8JE.
(Day 1 of 2)
MELFORD OLD SCHOOL. Tel: 07799
590459. Antique & Collectors Fair,
9.30am-4pm at Lavenham Village
Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk, CO10 9QT.
MISSING BOOK FAIRS. Tel: 01245
361609. Long Melford Book Fair,
10am-4pm at Village Memorial
Hall, off Hall Street, Long Melford,
Suffolk, CO10 9LQ.
SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS. Tel: 07816
220136. Sutton Coldﬁeld Town Hall,
9am-3.30pm at Upper Clifton Road,
Sutton, Coldﬁeld, B73 6AB.
Kinver Antiques
& Collectors’ Fair
up to 60 exhibitors
offering ceramics, glass,
jewellery, pictures, objets
d’art, toys and much more
10th May
Public 9.30am-4pm - £1.50
Trade 8.30am-9.30am FWC
Leisure Centre, Enville Road,
Kinver, Stourbridge,
W. Midlands DY7 6AA
Roman Tel: 07771 725302
Fairs www.romanfairs.co.uk
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antiquestradegazette.com
9th May 2015
fairs & markets
The Where’s
Wally game
for dealers
■ Century Ceramics duo take a
3000-mile trip to secure Martin
Brothers jar in New York
Joan Porter
reports
“THE American collector in
New York had to have my
Martin Brothers ﬁsh vase
and I had to have his Martin
Brothers Wally Bird jar.”
Above: this ‘grotesque’ Wally Bird jar with a head described by dealer Barry Stock of Century
Ceramics as “showing a kind and knowing expression” – which is not how some will see it – is
incised R.W Martin Bros London and Southall, dated 4-1905 and bears the number 18. Barry will be
bringing the 9in (22cm) tall jar to Two Cs Antiques Fairs’ Worcesterhire event on May 16-17. Price
on application to Barry on 07827 999014 or via centuryceramics.co.uk. The Martin Brothers Pottery
(1873-1914) was based in Southall, London. The four brothers, Robert Wallace, Walter, Edwin and
Charles were pioneers in the production of studio pottery, becoming famous for their eccentric
‘grotesque’ Wally bird jars and wheel-thrown and sculpted face jugs. The Wally Birds are so called
because they were modelled by Robert Wallace Martin.
Going Clive to launch
a second antiques fair
C-LIVE is an unusual name for a
company organising fairs.
It makes perfect sense though when
you realise it is run by Clive Botterill,
and the title was also inspired by his
time working on sound systems with
bands.
Clive launched his small antiques
and collectables fairs three years ago
at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, and
they have proved so popular that he
is starting a second fair at a different
venue. It will be in the market town
of Reepham in the north Norfolk
countryside, where the 20-act Reepham
15 music festival takes place every
August.
C-Live are at the Reepham and
Cherry Willingham village hall on
Saturday and Sunday, May 9-10, and a
second fair will follow.
Contact Clive on 01526 352751
The transatlantic journey Barry Stock
and his wife Jane went on recently is
a good example of the distances some
dealers will travel to acquire a must-have
piece.
Their recent 3000-mile weekend trip
to the apartment of a private collector
in New York proved successful and they
closed the deal.
Barry, who with Jane runs Century
Ceramics in Gloucestershire, had been
after a Wally Bird jar for some time to
add to his stock of British art pottery.
The American collector, who owned the
‘grotesque’ bird for 20 years, is delighted
with his ﬁsh vase which now sits on a
table beside his ﬁsh tank.
Barry is bringing that Wally bird
to Two Cs Antiques Fairs’ next
Worcestershire fair at the Chateau
Impney Hotel, near Droitwich, on
Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17.
Organised by Stephanie Castell and
Ben Cooper, this 90-dealer biannual fair
has run full to capacity since its launch
in 2012.
This year the organisers are maximising
every inch of space as they will be joined
by eight dealers who formerly stood at
the specialist ceramics fair held regularly
at the Museum of Royal Worcester, which
is being redeveloped.
They include Brad Dover of Jupiter
Antiques, co-organiser of the museum
event.
■ twocsantiquesfairs.co.uk
■ centuryceramics.co.uk
Vintage trough ﬁlls dealer Chris full of joy
A CATTLE trough may not be a thing of beauty for many
people but for Chris Hamilton it’s a case of where there’s
muck there’s brass.
Chris – pictured right having a water-less wallow – is a ﬁrsttime exhibitor at the Ripley Castle fair near Harrogate in North
Yorkshire on Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17 (with trade
preview day on Friday May 15 from noon to 5pm).
This event is the ﬁrst of Arthur Swallow Fairs’ four home
and salvage fairs this year at different venues.
Chris, of Rutland Garden Classics, near Oakham, is just
back from a 350-mile trip buying stock for the fair. He has been
in the industry since he was a boy when his parents ran the
business as a garden centre, and he now owns the Rutlandbased company, selling architectural garden structures, statuary,
urns, stone troughs, staddle stones and garden seating.
His best-sellers are stone and cast-iron urns, so he will be
loading up some of these and plenty of other reclaimed pieces
at prices from £5 to £800 to take to the fair.
The Ingilby family can trace its ownership of the village and
the adjoining castle to the 13th century. Sir William Amcotts
Ingilby (1783-1854) believed that his tenantry should be
properly housed and demolished the village and rebuilt it as
a model estate village, copying an idea he had seen in Alsace
Lorraine, even calling the Gothic town hall ‘Hotel de Ville’.
■ asfairs.com
■ rutlandgardenclassics.co.uk
send fairs and markets information to joan porter at [email protected]
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English Heritage
Antiques Trade Gazette
Above: attached to the
medieval and Tudor Eltham
Palace in south-east London,
home to the biannual Art Deco
fairs, is this masterpiece of
20th century design. In 1933
Virginia and Stephen Courtauld
of textiles fame leased the
premises, creating an Art Deco
mansion which was described at
the time as “one of the greatest
design projects of the day” and
incorporated the original Great
Hall. Pictured is the palace’s
spectacular Deco entrance hall.
Left: a perfect ﬁt for the 1930s
Eltham Palace mansion is this
Heal’s Art Deco walnut bureau
bookcase from c.1935. For the
21st century there is room to
accommodate a laptop within
the bureau with the fall front
shut. Priced at £1095. it will be
with Norfolk dealers Circa 1900
at the two-day Art Deco fair at
the palace on May 16-17.
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Regular Weekly Fairs and Markets
MONDAYS
THE COVENT GARDEN ANTIQUES MARKET.
Tel: 020 7240 7405. Antiques Fair, 6am onwards at
The Jubilee Hall, Southampton St, Covent Garden,
LONDON WC2.
TAUNTON ANTIQUE MARKET. Tel: 01823 289327. Indoor
Market, 9am-4pm at Silver Street, TAUNTON, Somerset.
TUESDAYS
Marquee boosts furniture at
Art Deco masterpiece fair
ANTIQUE FORUM MARKETS LTD. Tel: 01782 393660.
Antiques & Collectables, 8am-3pm at The Stones,
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, Staffordshire ST5 1PW.
ST JAMES’S PICCADILLY. Tel: 020 7734 4511. Antique &
Collectors’ Market, 10am-6pm at St James’s Church,
197 Piccadilly, LONDON W1J 9LL.
SINCE English Heritage took the decision a few years back to add a marquee to the
existing exhibitor space in the medieval Great Hall at Eltham Palace for their biannual
Art Deco fairs, they have doubled standholder numbers, particularly for furniture.
The ﬁrst of these events for 2015 is on Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17.
One furniture dealer taking a stall in south-east London is Circa 1900, based in
Norfolk and owned by former army ofﬁcer Arthur Pattison, a man so passionate about
Art Deco and Arts & Crafts furniture that he abandoned a law career in 2008 to set up
his company devoted to selling it.
He said: “Growing up and going to school next door to the William Morris Gallery
in London inﬂuenced my taste as I have always had a passion for good design and
especially progressive design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
“The online business was planned from the outset to specialise in furniture from the
Arts & Crafts movement to 1930s Modernism.”
He added: “As I decided that I only wanted to sell pieces that reﬂected the very best
in British design, manufacture and retail from this period, most of my furniture comes
from the very best commercial ﬁrms including Heal’s, Liberty’s, Gordon Russell, Bath
Cabinet Makers, Betty Joel and Brynmawr Furniture Makers among others.”
Pattison is also very enthusiastic about these Art Deco fairs. He takes about 25
pieces of furniture to each biannual event, most of which he sells.
“This fair gives us an excellent opportunity to take the business to London twice a
year. Often people visit the house and come away with a dining table,” he said.
He is taking a selection of new stock to the upcoming Art Deco fair at Eltham Palace
including the Deco bureau bookcase pictured above.
■ english-heritage.co.uk
■ circa-1900.co.uk
CAMDEN PASSAGE ANTIQUES MARKET.
Tel: 020 7359 0190. London’s Original Antiques Village
at Angel Islington, LONDON N1.
SAUNDERS MARKETS LTD. Antiques, Collectables & Bric
a Brac Sale, 7am-2pm at The Exchange, Market Access Road,
off Waterhouse Street, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 1ET.
WEDNESDAYS
THURSDAYS
SPITALFIELDS ANTIQUES MARKET. Tel: 020 7240 7405.
Antiques Market, 8am-6pm at Commercial Street,
LONDON E1.
ANTIQUE FORUM MARKETS LTD. Tel: 01782 393660.
Arts and Crafts, Flea & Bric-a-Brac Market,
8am-3pm at The Stones, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME,
Staffordshire ST5 1PW.
GOAT LANE FAIR (FORMERLY CLOISTERS FAIR).
Tel: 01603 630763. Antiques. Collectables. Vintage. Retro.
Quakers Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, NORWICH NR2
1EW, 8am-3pm. Free Entry. www.cloistersfair.com.
PADDINGTON DEVELOPMENTS. Tel: 020 3589 1577.
Vintage & Artisans Market, 11am-6pm at Sheldon Square,
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Carrier’s one-off Christmas gift?
SIR – I read with interest your article in ATG
No 2187 regarding the purchase of the Minton
archives. In April 1998 I bought at an antiques
fair in Winchester a Minton hand-painted cup
and saucer. The cup had a signature and the
saucer was signed AC and impressed with the
mark of Minton’s and an arrow.
This meant nothing to me so I wrote to
Minton and the curator at the time contacted
me by phone. She said the cup and saucer were
painted by one Albert E Carrier Belleuse who
joined Minton in 1848. The curator sent me a
full history of Carrier’s association with Minton,
his Paris connection and his pupil Rodin.
I was told this cup and saucer were most
probably a one-off that Carrier painted as a
Christmas present.
This letter is most certainly not a request for
valuation; however, what I am interested in its
rarity and I was wondering if any ATG reader
had any information. Eric Knowles of BBC
Antiques Roadshow fame told me he has never
seen a piece of porcelain signed by Carrier.
Trevor Witt
North Baddesley, Southampton
Help us to ﬁnd this mystery antiques owner
SIR – We have been contacted by the executor of an estate where the deceased
allowed an antiques dealer to use their garage for storage. There is no record
in the house of who this person was therefore no way of contacting them. The
house with lock-up garage is in Orpington, Kent. Do you know of a dealer who
may have rented this garage to store stock?
The owner of the garage sadly died in January and the garage needs to be
cleared as the house has been sold. As a matter of urgency can you please call the
solicitor handling the case: Mrs Jane Whiting, Baker Macdonald, 01732 457978.
Vital steps to sell at auction
3% online bidding charge and VAT on that
charge. There is therefore the additional
VAT on 3% of £2400 (£72) to claim back:
£14.40. Added up over the year there is
a signiﬁcant amount going into HMRC’s
clutches which need not.
Most major auction houses have sorted
this out; perhaps the others could make
the effort to correct their invoices which
are, incidentally, illegal as they are required
to show reclaimable VAT separately.
SIR – Re: selling at auction. Auction prices can sometimes be extremely erratic.
Other than pure chance there are a number of other factors worth considering:
■ The time of year when an auction takes place
■ The reputation and the expertise of the auction house
■ The quality of the cataloguing
■ Whether or not the auction house stands by its attributions
■ Whether other events are taking places such as antique fairs and other
auctions offering similar items
■ The provenance of an item (bearing in mind that collectors and dealer’s labels
are now also being copied)
■ The state of the market
This seems an opportune moment to mention these criteria as we have in stock
a pair of Chinese Kangxi ‘love chase’ vases (our ref:X741) priced at £8000; whereas
a single vase from the Roy Davidson Collection (lot 126) sold on the November 6,
2014, for £10,625. It could equally have made considerably less if the criteria listed
above had not been met. I hope that this comparison illustrates the point I am
making. Auction prices can be very erratic even when the above criteria are met.
It is worth noting that when it comes to Chinese porcelain and works of art that
some of the above criteria are particularly important since many Chinese buyers
are not conﬁdent of auction room attributions and copies of Chinese porcelain
abound!
Dealers in the UK (those who are members of the British Antique Dealers
Association follow a strict code of practice) are legally obliged to stand by their
attributions. The laws appertaining to auctions can vary considerably from one
country to the next.
Raymond Norman
J&R Norman Antiques
Hemingstone, Suffolk
Anthony Gray
Guest and Gray
Davies Mews, London
Helen Martin
Director, B2B Events
Time to pose taxing questions
SIR – Once again I have come up against
an auction house whose accounting
programme is faulty. Although the VAT
on Special Scheme purchases is not
reclaimable, the VAT on the 3% added for
online bidding is as it is a service charge
not an element of the purchase price.
Sloppy programming lumps all the
premium and VAT together, meaning it is
unlikely to be accepted by HMRC if you
calculate the reclaimable VAT. For example,
this week I bought a carriage clock with a
hammer price of £2400. The total bill was
£3062.40 which comprises hammer price,
buyer’s premium plus VAT on hammer,
Left and above: The Minton
cup and saucer bought in April
1998 which are painted by
Albert E Carrier Belleuse.
Andrew Webb
IT is with great sadness we announce the untimely death
of Andrew Webb of the Christophe Edwards and Andrew
Webb Gallery and Collier Webb Ltd.
Born in Aberdeen in 1973, Andrew read English at the
University of Strathclyde before starting at Sotheby’s Bond
Street while at the same time maintaining a sales position
at silver dealers Wynyard Wilkinson.
In 2000 he joined Lulu Lytle at Soane Britain as general
sales manager and was to have eight fruitful years there,
helping to develop Soane into the successful global brand
it is today.
In 2008 he left Soane to set up Andrew Webb Ltd
which concentrated on interior design, advising clients and
sourcing important pieces of antique furniture.
This then led to the formation of the Christophe
Edwards and Andrew Webb Gallery with extensive
showrooms at Core One, the inﬂuential antique and
design collective in Chelsea.
Andrew’s design skills, and occasional frustration at
being unable to source a particular piece, resulted in
an additional partnership with Geoff Collier, a highly
experienced ﬁne metal manufacturer, and the formation of
Collier Webb Ltd in 2011.
Having recently moved to larger premises in Pimlico
Road, the company produce high-end lighting, mirrors
and bespoke furniture. It has been a winning combination
attracting clients worldwide, and has led to a number
of prestigious commissions, the refurbishing of both
Claridges and the Connaught Hotel among them. The
company are also in partnership at leading American
interior designer Michael Smith’s ‘Jasper’ showrooms in
Hollywood and have recently appointed a New York agent.
Andrew’s drive, creativity and humour has led to this
larger-than-life character being a much loved face in the
world of interior design, one that will be sorely missed.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
Christophe Edwards
Antiques Trade Gazette
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A LAWYER WRITES
Why you need to tread carefully
when negotiating three-way deals
■ MILTON SILVERMAN on the
perils and pitfalls of art sales
where the proceeds are split
between different parties
A LONG-STANDING client explained that
he had done a deal which was not in its
nature unusual, but that the next dealer
down the line had asked for it to be
documented.
This was the reason for his visit and he
explained as follows:
He was one in a chain of three.
The owner of a valuable painting had
contacted a dealer he knew, who in turn
contacted my client since this picture was
within his ﬁeld of expertise.
It had been explained that the owner
wanted to receive £3m for the picture,
and whatever else was achieved was
to be a proﬁt to be split between my
client and his dealer colleague who had
introduced the picture to him.
As substantial sums were involved,
the dealer colleague had asked for the
arrangement between my client and
himself to be recorded.
Having listened to what my client
had to say, I explained that the ultimate
sale price and the commissions which
my client and his dealer friend were to
receive, should all be disclosed to the
owner, otherwise there was a risk that
the owner could make a claim for these
undisclosed commissions.
My client was absolutely horriﬁed,
made clear that what I said was
ridiculous, and that this sort of deal is
done all the time.
I went on to explain that the way they
had structured the deal was such that
my client and his colleague were both
effectively agents of the owner, and that
it is very clear that, as agents, they have
duties to their principal, i.e. the owner,
who has, at least as a matter of law,
appointed them to act on his behalf.
I advised that only a few years ago,
in 2010, there was a high-proﬁle and
fascinating case which went all the way
to a High Court trial on this very point.
This was the case of Accidia Foundation v
Simon C Dickinson Limited.
What happened was as follows.
In 2006, Accidia Foundation acquired
a drawing attributed to Leonardo da
Vinci depicting the Madonna and Child.
Accidia engaged LAL, an international
art-dealing company run by Daniella
Luxembourg, to sell the drawing on
Accidia’s behalf as agent.
LAL asked London dealership Simon
C Dickinson Limited (Dickinson) to assist
in ﬁnding a buyer from his pool of clients
which they did. They invoiced their
purchaser for $7m in July 2007 plus some
restoration work costing £2500.
Various agreements were entered into
between the various parties.
There was one agreement between
Accidia and LAL giving LAL authority
to sell the drawing. There was another
agreement between Dickinson and their
buyer.
There was yet another between
LAL and Dickinson agreeing that the
price of the drawing was $6m and
that the remaining $1m could be kept
by Dickinson as commission. It is this
particular agreement which was the
central issue in the case.
LAL invoiced Accidia for its
introductory commission amounting to
$500,000.
The ultimate buyer then discovered
there were queries about the authenticity
of the work and asked Dickinson to buy it
back for $7m, which it did.
This re-purchase was approved
by Accidia (although Accidia did not
give back the purchase monies it had
received). Shortly after the repurchase, a
Leonardo da Vinci expert concluded that
it was a “one-off drawing from the last
years” of da Vinci’s life.
In 2009 Accidia issued High Court
proceedings claiming return of the $1m
commission received by Dickinson.
In the judge’s words “the case
concerns the practice of selling works of
art on the basis of the ‘net return price’
agreed by the seller, in circumstances
where the actual purchase price is known
only to the buyer and the intermediary
dealer”.
Dickinson argued that the type of
transaction it had entered into was
normal on the London art market and
that it was therefore perfectly entitled to
treat the sale price as agreed between
itself and LAL and to keep the extra proﬁt
as commission.
The judge held that there was no
custom or practice whereby art dealers
agreed with principals or their agents,
for a ‘net return price’ on the basis that
the dealer (Dickinson here) might sell the
piece at any price without informing the
principal (Accidia here) or their agent,
of that ultimate price or the level of
commission the dealer received, after the
dealer passed on only the ‘return price’.
According to the judge, such
arrangements could not be described as
the ‘usual practice’, or the way in which
valuable paintings were usually sold,
even dealer to dealer, in the London art
market.
More importantly, the judge
advised, such arrangements would be
“objectionable as being unreasonable
and unlawful, unless they were
concluded with the fully informed
consent of the principal seller [emphasis
added], or the dealer accounted to that
principal for the secret proﬁt secured”.
OBITUARY
John Keil
I REGRET to inform you of the death of BADA member and
former BADA council member John Keil on April 23 after a
long illness.
John traded in 18th century English furniture and was a
member of the association for more than 50 years, trading
from several different premises in London and Bath, lately in
Brompton Road. He also exhibited at Grosvenor House.
A service will be held at the Church of St Eadburgha,
Snowshill Road, Broadway, Worcestershire WR12 7JS on
Thursday, May 14, at noon.
Family ﬂowers only please, but those wishing to make a
donation in John’s memory may do so to the BADA Cultural
and Educational Trust c/o BADA 20 Rutland Gate, London
SW7 1BD.
Riley Grant, membership secretary, BADA
The judge decided it would be
“inequitable” to allow Accidia to recover
the whole of the $1m without paying
anything for Dickinson’s services.
On the other hand he decided it
would be “inappropriate and unjust” to
allow Dickinson to keep the whole of the
$1m when they had not negotiated and
agreed any fee at all, and had known that
they had been acting as agent in locating
a buyer for the drawing.
In his wisdom, the judge decided
that Accidia should pay what it would
have paid had it known that Dickinson’s
managed to achieve $7m for the
drawing.
The judge decided a commission of
10% ($700,000) should be paid out in
total. This sum would be split between
Dickinson who would receive $200,000,
and LAL who would receive $500,000.
Additionally Dickinson would receive the
$2500 which they paid for restoration.
So, the bottom line for the London
dealers was that they would have to pay
back $800,000 less the US$2500, but
together with compound interest.
All this may come as a considerable
shock to those dealers for whom it is
indeed usual practice to say to the next
up the line: “If I arrange to get £XYZ for
it, is this ok, and I will keep the rest?”
It could all have been avoided for
Simon C Dickinson if they had just
managed the transaction differently:
their fundamental problem was that
they had set themselves up as ‘agents’ in
the transaction, and agents owe duties
(including disclosure of the true position)
to their principals.
So, on the face of it, these agents
were taking a secret proﬁt, namely the
$1m, which Accidia did not even know
about. Dickinson, because they were
agents, owing duties to Accidia, caught it
from the judge.
However, if, for example, Dickinson
had been the buyers (not agents) for
$6m, and then sold the painting on for
$7m in a straight-up purchase and sale,
they would have been in a very different
position and most likely would have
saved themselves the hefty judgment
ﬁgure which they had to repay.
The real lesson is to set it up carefully
beforehand and take advice if unsure.
Milton Silverman is Senior
Commercial Dispute Resolution
partner at Streathers Solicitors LLP,
44 Baker Street, London
■ streathers.co.uk
CARTIER. AN IMPORTANT COLOURED-PEARL AND DIAMOND BRACELET.
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of marquise-shaped diamonds, 1958, signed Cartier London, mounted in Platinum. Formerly from the
collection of Sita Devi the Maharani of Baroda.
Both famous and infamous, the Maharani of Baroda was a great symbol of opulence in post war Europe.
As the newly-formed post-Independence government of India turned its attentions to the wealth of the
Maharajas of the Princely states, the Maharani loaded trunks of jewels and rolls of carpets into a plane
and headed for Paris. Famously fearless, and with her usual disregard for society’s views on appropriate
ladylike conduct, the story that circulated upon her arrival was that she had brandished a revolver in the
direction of the pilot who, upon seeing his cargo, had attempted to renegotiate the fare. Once in Paris,
her vivacious character and sensuous appearance meant she quickly became an indispensable member
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