Sale Report

ANOTHER GOOD SALE

With the saleroom full to capacity, buyers flocked to the Tabernacle at Wotton-under-Edge for the July auction.  They were accompanied by a BBC television crew filming an edition of Antiques Road Trip to be aired on the BBC one evening in the Autumn.

Buyers found a great variety of lots on offer including four Narwhal tusks (Arctic White Whale) almost certainly 19^th century and at sometime used as table legs,  sold for £2,400.  A Regency bracket clock with a brass inlaid and ebony case with an 8 day fusee movement sold at £1,100. 

A white marble statue of a kneeling girl her hands clasped in prayer sold at £1,000 and finds a new home in Belgium.

Amongst the furniture a pair of early 19^th century mahogany window seats raised on scroll supports,  in poor order but with potential sold for £1,700, whilst an 18^th century oak press cupboard realised £900.

A brightly coloured cylindrical tin umbrella/stick stand by the Italian designer Fornassetti dating from the late 1960’s or early 1970’s, may appear to many to  have no value but these pieces are held in very high regard by interior designers and decorators.  The pre-sale hopes of £400 were swept aside and it sold to a telephone bidder at £1,500. 

Since this sale was concluded the rooms have remained extremely busy with entries for the August sale, some six working days later the rooms are again virtually full.

Amongst the entries include a large quantity of antique furniture, pictures and silver from Crowe Hall in Bath.  The ceramics and glassware removed from this substantial property will form the nucleus of a specialist separate sale to be held later in the year.

Lot 1472 –sold for £1,500

Lot 1048 – sold for £1,000

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