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MAYBE SPRING IS IN THE AIR?
The advent of
Spring, warmer days and longer evenings brings out a certain
restlessness in all of us, an urge to clear out and tidy, after
what has seems a long and dull winter. This perhaps was one
reason why the salerooms were full to capacity with buyers
equally keen to purchase those turned out lots on offer.
The sale of
Edge House in the small and pretty Cotswold village of Edge
close to Painswick provided an excellent collection of long
forgotten pieces including a good example of a country house
hall letterbox in the form of a military sentry box in oak with
glazed door showing a watercolour of a Hussar in yellow uniform
standing about 17” high and realised £2,400. Whilst from the
toy cupboard a really mixed collection including a Victorian
theatre, parlour games, soft toys as well as Dinky and Corgi
toys sold in five lots for £1,520.
Silver
continues to sell beyond expectation each lot heavily
contested. The best lot an 18th century claret jug
with swag and acanthus detail hallmarked in London 1774 sold for
£1,120. The sixty five lots of silver on offer sold for a
total of £9,065.
Jewellery too
is selling very well, particularly if it contains a high gold
element, the appetite for gold seems insatiable at present.
Miscellaneous
prices from throughout the saleroom included £600 for a
gentleman’s 9 ct gold Rolex wristwatch, £530 for a George III
mahogany stick barometer, £760 for three lots of vintage
clothing, £400 for a pair of Victorian opaque glass table
lustre’s, £460 for a small Moorcroft vase, whilst £640 was paid
for a pair of 19th century Cantagalli majolica
vases. Top price amongst the pictures was taken for an oil on
canvas by Roger Hilton – a landscape study at £1,250. Best of
the book section included £560 for a 17th century
edition of Emelemes de l’Amour. A set of six Regency cast iron
urns sold at £620. The best of the furniture included a Dutch
floral marquetry bureau cabinet at £1,900.
Forthcoming
sale on April 19th/20th will again see the
room to capacity, a strong picture section already to hand
includes three original Lionel Edwards watercolours, pair of
marine watercolours by Thomas Bush Hardy, further works by Roger
Hilton.
We have also
been instructed by Laurie Lee’s widow, Cathy, to sell a small
selection of his furniture removed from his cottage in Slad.
He is, of
course, well known to millions of readers for his lyrical
account of his Gloucestershire boyhood immortalised in ‘Cider
With Rosie’.
The pieces
are of a simple modest nature, a true reflection of the austere
rural life of his earlier days.
A
certificate of provenance signed by the Lee family will
accompany each lot which will carry very modest reserves.
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