REPORT ON TWO DAY SALE OF ANTIQUES AND SELECTED ITEMS INCLUDING

FURNITURE, CLOCKS, MISCELLANEA, CHINA GLASS,

SILVER, SILVER PLATE AND JEWELLERY, PICTURES AND PAINTINGS

HELD ON  THURSDAY 19^th   and FRIDAY 20^th  JANUARY, 2006  

The first auction of 2006 at Rendells Auction Rooms was greeted with a good entry of antiques and selected items.

The Furniture Section was well received by private collectors and the trade and a large pair of Black Forest carved game plaques led the section;  each plaque was 41” high by 25” across and carved with chamois and birds.   Interest was shown from the trade and private collectors with a Wiltshire collector winning the day with a bid of £2,400.

Other highlights within the Furniture Section included:

£780    bid by the Devon trade for a Victorian mahogany pedestal breakfast table;

£360    paid by a local collector for a Victorian breakfront pedestal desk;

£330    for a 19^th Century mahogany double fold writing slope;

£320    paid for a pair of 19^th Century rosewood framed tub chairs;

£320    for a Regency rosewood pedestal work table, and

£310    for an early 20^th Century oak desk.

A particularly fine quality 19^th Century French mantel clock led the Clock Section with a bid of £1,080.   The gilt metal clock was decorated with hand painted porcelain panels and was sold over the telephone to the Irish trade.   An oak and mahogany longcase clock sold to the local trade for £760.

The Copper, Brass and Miscellanea Section contained the usual eclectic mix of items with nearly three hundred lots on offer.   A pair of German military binoculars exceeded expectations and sold to a collector for £540.

Other results included:

£390    paid by the local trade for a horn and silver banded picture frame;

£300    paid for a horn and silver ink stand;

£200    for a  cased sextant by Cary of London;

£130    for a cased violin, and

£120    paid by a local collector for a horn powder flask.

A Selection of  Books from a local estate sold well with a finely illustrated book entitled “Butterflies in their Floral Homes” by Paul Jerrard, selling for £360;  two Cabinet Bibles by James Fittler sold for £280;  a 1923 Hardy’s Fly Fishing catalogue sold for £90, and various mixed lots of books sold between £50 and £250.

Friday’s China Section contained a pair of rare Moorcroft Macintyre Florianware  vases which found favour with a local collector and sold for £950.   The Irish trade bid £460 for a Minton’s jardiniere commemorating the Coronation of King George V.   A pair of Minton Majolica figures also sold for £460.

Other highlights included:

£340    for a 19^th Century sealed bottle;

£150    paid for a Clarice Cliff Fantasque bowl;

£90      paid by a local collector for a Royal Doulton Flambe vase , and

£85      for a Will Young Runnaford pottery figure group.

The Silver and Silver Plate Section was well received.   A mixed lot of spoons sold for £310 and £290 for a pair of candlesticks.

Other highlights included:

£270    was paid by the Exeter Trade for a silver plated centrepiece;

£240    for a silver cased travel clock;

£210    for a silver salver by Mappin & Webb, and

£190    for an early engraved box.

The Jewellery Section suffered from a smaller entry, but a number of pieces still sold well.  An  18ct. gold three stone diamond cross-over ring sold for £335 and a heavy carved 19^th Century ring with pearls and enamel sold for £220.

Paintings sold well with a Limited Edition Print by David Shepherd entitle4d “Tiger in the Sun” sold to a telephone bidder for £870.   A pair of Moorland Scenes by Douglas Pinder sold to the local trade for £235 and an oil on board of a Maritime Scene by William James Laidley  sold for £230.

A pair of Black Forest carved walnut game plaques, having applied relief’s of goats and birds, bear inscription verso Thos. JW Martin which sold for £2,400

A 19th Century gilt metal mantel clock having French eight day bell strike movement,  with porcelain painted panels depicting figures in a landscape on pink ground.   The top decorated with vines and fruits above two face masks and scrolls, standing on shaped base which sold for £1,080

One volume : Butterflies and Their Floral Homes, by Paul Jerrard, having nine loose hand coloured plates within a mock tortoiseshell and gilt cover which sold for £360

A pair of Moorcroft Macintyre Florianware vases having a slender stemmed body decorated with blue poppies with gilt edging on pale blue ground which sold for £950

A Minton’s jardiniere commemorating the Coronation of Their Most Gracious Majesties King George V and Queen Mary, decorated with numerous Military ships in a seascape which sold for £460

An early wine bottle applied with a seal inscribed R. Densham, Upton 1810 which sold for £340

A pair of Minton Majolica figures in the form of a male and female fruit picker with basket which sold for £460

OUR  NEXT SALE WILL BE ON THE 16^th and 17^th FEBRUARY

 and will include

OUTSIDE EFFECTS, FURNITURE, CLOCKS, BAROMETERS, COPPER, BRASS & MISCELLANEA, METALWORK, CHINA AND GLASS, GOOD PICTURES,  PAINTINGS and WATERCOLOURS

OUR SALE ON THE 16^th and 17^th MARCH will include

OUTSIDE EFFECTS, FURNITURE, CLOCKS, BAROMETERS, COPPER, BRASS & MISCELLANEA, METALWORK, CHINA AND GLASS, SILVER, SILVER PLATE AND JEWELLERY, AND PICTURES,  PAINTINGS and WATERCOLOURS

Entries accepted from 20^th February to 25^th February