Sale Report

 

IT WAS ALL SPARKLE!

  

Jewellery and lots of it attracted a cheerful company of buyers at the Wotton Auction Rooms April sale.  Husbands and wives, friends and dealers clustered around the cabinets which contained a really good selection of pieces with the emphasis on diamonds closely followed by sapphires or indeed a combination of the two.

 

Much of the collection had come from one deceased estate having been built up just prior to and after the last war and having hardly been seen since it was much admired and sought after.

 

Three equestrian brooches with either jockeys or huntsmen riding diamond encrusted steeds sold for £5,850, a pair of Art Deco platinum and diamond cufflinks made £1,150 and a pair of diamond cluster earrings circa 1950 £1,700.  The best of the bracelets set with diamond cartouche sections set in platinum sold at £4,000, while others made £1,900, £1,450 and £1,320.  A heavy 18ct gold solitaire diamond signet ring sold at £1,420, while an Art Nouveau pendant encrusted with diamonds realised £1,150.

The jewellery section totalled £32,455 with little un-sold.

 

This was a typically varied sale, which has become a Wotton trademark. £850 was taken for a Georgian miniature portrait of The Duke of York, £680 for a once fabulous pair of Regency curtains now in desperate need of restoration, while £1,500 was taken for an oil on canvas by Herink of Venice, while the best of the stamp collections this month made £840 and the best of the postcard albums £600.  A 19th century painted plaster figure of a young boy playing on a pipe sold at £780.

 

Amongst the furniture a pair of 19th century Coalbrookdale Fern and Blackberry pattern iron chairs sold at £1,250, a 17th century and later court cupboard £920, a large oak refectory table in an Elizabethan manner £850, a Georgian mahogany and pine chest on chest £800 and finally a Regency secretaire bookcase at £1,100.

 

The next sale will be held on 20th/21st May and includes interesting entries received from recent probate instructions and other sources

 

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