REPORT ON THE TWO DAY AUCTION OF ANTIQUES AND SELECTED ITEMS: OUTSIDE EFFECTS, FURNITURE, CLOCKS, BAROMETERS, MISCELLANEA, COLLECTABLES, CHINA, GLASS, METALWORK, RUGS, BOOKS, TOYS, SILVER PLATE, SILVER & JEWELLERY, PICTURES & PAINTINGS. HELD ON THURSDAY 25^th & FRIDAY 26^th MARCH 2010.

Rendells monthly two day sale of antiques and selected items was held on Thursday 25^th and Friday 26^th March 2010.   This month’s sale included silver plate, silver and jewellery on Friday afternoon.   A good attendance was present on both the sale days resulting in a fair trade.

Top price over the two day sale was for lot 546, a good quality early 19^th Century mahogany longcase clock by Edmund Weight of Dursley which sold for its reserve price of £2,000.    The second highest price was £680 for lot 275, a large painted pine kitchen counter. Lot 1794, a diamond flower head cluster ring made £600.   Lot 701, a box of miscellanea items made £520 and lot 458, a rare 17^th Century Spanish iron strong box sold for £500.

OUTSIDE EFFECTS: 

A pair of oak arched church doors and surround approximately 8ft tall sold to a local private buyer for £290.

DOWNSTAIRS FURNITURE: 

200 lots were included in the downstairs furniture sale on Thursday morning with a number of pine pieces of furniture selling for some good prices suggesting a strong trade.   Top prices were as follows:  lot 274 a painted pine kitchen counter  sold for £390.    Lot 110, 2 smokers bows which sold well making £230.  Lots 179 and 183 both made £220, these being a pine painted chest of drawers and a pitch pine collector’s cabinet.   Finally three lots sold for £200 each.-  Lot 234, a waxed pine chest of drawers,  lot 268, a pitch pine glazed dresser and lot 289, a late Victorian carved oak Bergeré settee.

UPSTAIRS FURNITURE:

Furniture continued to sell well upstairs with lot 459 achieving the second highest price of £420 for an 18^th/19^th Century continental Japanned cabinet with fitted interior.   To follow this selling for £330 was lot 428, a Bjorg Morgensen style leather armchair.   Further lots which sold for over £200 included lot 389 an oak refectory table selling for £260.   Lot 457, a late Georgian bow front chest of drawers made £250.  Two Victorian mahogany Chiffoniers sold well, these being lot 456 for £230 and lot 353 for £220.   Finally three lots which sold for £200 each were Lot 354 a pair of Victorian hall chairs,  lot 381, a Victorian mahogany two drawer writing table and lot 392, a fruit wood pedestal circular table.

CLOCKS AND BAROMETERS: 

After the sale of the longcase clock for a top price of £2,000 in the two day sale there were two further good prices to mention in this section.   These were lot 534, a Liberty clock dial which made £400 and lot 539 a 19^th Century mahogany cased dial wall clock by Stephen May of Bovey Tracey made £210.

MISCELLANEA AND COLLECTABLES: 

Over 250 lots went up for sale on Thursday afternoon with three further good sales to mention.  Lot 745 a nice and in good condition 19^th Century brass telescope by Smith Beck and Beck of 31 Cornhill, London, on oak tripod stand sold well for £430.   Lot 748, a 19^th century gong supported by two carved Siamese figures sold to the Exeter trade for £280.   Finally lot 769 a rare Betts portable terrestrial globe sold for its reserve price of £200.

CHINA AND GLASS: 

A much improved demand for over 300 lots in the China and Glass sale on Friday morning which included a good selection of Beswick, Sylvac and other animal figurines. Sales worth mentioning were lot 1272, a Moorcroft Pottery Commemorative octagonal dish which sold for £270 and lot 1211, seventeen Royal Doulton Brambly Hedge models which in  very good condition made £225.

TOYS:                       

A Bisque headed google eyed doll sold for £380.

SILVER PLATE AND SILVER:         

The Silver Plate and Silver auction received a strong trade as usual with the majority of the lots selling in each section.  Top price was for lot 1644, a silver 3 piece tea service stamped and dated Sheffield 1896, by Walker and Hall which sold very well for £380.   Lot 1620 a nice Asprey of London magnifying glass made £260.   Lot 1572A, a quantity of miscellanea Silver Plate sold for £240 and lot 1645, a boxed set of twelve fish knives, forks and servers having bone handles stamped and dated Sheffield 1937 by Ollivent and Botsford of Manchester sold for £200.

JEWELLERY:

Over 150 lots of Jewellery were included in Friday afternoon’s sale receiving a strong trade. Top prices  were Lot1772, a box containing a coral necklace and various lockets etc. which sold for over four times its reserve price making £420.  Lot 1707 a 9ct gold double Albert and Seal sold to the same trade for £250.   Finally lot 1713, a bag of assorted scrap gold sold for £200 again to the same buyer.

PICTURES AND PAINTINGS: 

In the Pictures and Paintings sale was lot 1946, a Thomas Rowden watercolour of cattle grazing beside a Dartmoor stream believed the Lyd, signed and dated 1899, sold for £270.

OUR NEXT SALE ON Thursday 29^th and Friday 30^th April 2010 will include OUTSIDE EFFECTS, FURNITURE, CLOCKS, BAROMETERS, MISCELLANEA, COLLECTABLES, CHINA, GLASS, RUGS, BOOKS, TOYS, PICTURES & PAINTINGS.

Entries accepted until Saturday 10^th April 2010.

Lot 429 = £480

Lot 458 = £500

Lot 428 = £330

Lot 546 = £2,000

Lot 1620 = £260

Lot 769 = £200