Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Saturday, May 08 2010
Monthly Interiors Auction
Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.
Lot 25 SOLD FOR: £ 85
A pair of late 19th Century brass and champleve enamel candlesticks of Art Nouveau design with circular flower pattern bowls, knopped stems and circular bases, 7ins high
Guide Price: £50-70
A pair of African carved wood bookends modelled with profile heads, 10.5ins high, and four other carved wood heads
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 94 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A late 19th/ early 20th Century rosewood and chromed brass mounted oboe by Buffet Paris, 70ins overall with black leather case for same
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 95 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A Japanese bronzed metal figure of a standing woman holding a cat, on circular base, 5ins high, and two carved hardwood figures of Buddhas
Guide Price: £60-80
A W. Britains painted lead "Coronation Coach" set, comprising - coach, horses and household cavalry figures, and box for same, and fifteen ditto figures - various soldiers, and box for same
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 99 SOLD FOR: £ 20
A Mamod painted metal and brass steam traction engine, 10ins overall, and sundries (one box)
Guide Price: £20-30
Three 19th Century circular horse brasses decorated with hearts, three other horse brasses, and a selection of brass and metalware, various (one box)
Guide Price: £40-60
An early 20th Century celluloid headed baby doll with closing hazel eyes and open mouth and with cloth body, 17ins overall (paint to head cracked)
Guide Price: £50-70
A Triang painted wood Fitbits "Soldier Set", and box for same (box a.f.)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 116 SOLD FOR: £ 50
A Japanese bronze two handled koro and cover, with kylin finial and circular base, 15ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
A modern bronze figure - Standing American Indian, on black marble circular base, 13.5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 118 SOLD FOR: £ 55
A box containing a quantity of stamps (mostly from the Commonwealth)
Guide Price: £60-80
Six bronze and iron cylindrical sweet making moulds of various geometric patterns, with cogged wheel ends, each 7ins wide
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 122 SOLD FOR: £ 180
A Hornby Dublo diecast train set, comprising - 4-6-2 locomotive - "Duchess of Atholl", No. 6231, in red and black L.M.S. livery, 8ins overall, and tender for same, two passenger coaches, track, transformer and box for same (box a.f.), a ditto "D1 Through Station" and box for same, a ditto diecast tank locomotive No. 69567 in black British Railways livery, 6ins overall, and box for same, and a selection of Hornby Dublo wagons and accessories, various (one box)
Guide Price: £200-300
A late Victorian brown leather photograph album with gilt metal clasp, containing a quantity of portrait photographs, various, and two scrap albums
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 134 SOLD FOR: £ 120
An album containing a quantity of early 20th Century film star, greetings and topographical postcards including a card of Miss Ellen Terry and a Mabel Lucie Attwell card - "Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming"
Guide Price: £100-150
A Victorian naval officer's dress sword by Galt, Portsmouth, with 30.5ins engraved steel blade, gilt metal hilt and shagreen and wire bound grip, 36ins overall (lacking scabbard)
Guide Price: £100-150
A cricket bat by Duncan Fearnley, Worcester, signed to front with "Kent 1979 Team"
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 193 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A Victorian dress sword by Jenkinson & Allardyce, London, with 31ins narrow engraved blade and brass hilt and with brass mounted black leather scabbard for same, 37ins overall (scabbard a.f.), and Indian tulwar, three other swords, and an African carved wood staff
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 265 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment bronzed metal cap badge, and a selection of military badges and buttons, various (one tin)
Guide Price: £70-100
Sixteen 19th Century bone bobbins with glass beaded spangles (various sizes)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 290 SOLD FOR: £ 30
A 19th Century bronze two part corkscrew by Lund, Cornhill, London, 9ins overall
Guide Price: £70-100
A signed programme for "Behind the Fringe" at Cambridge Theatre 1972 (signed in blue ballpen to cover by Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke) and a signed entry form for "The LBC Radio Swimathon
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 293 SOLD FOR: £ 50
A 19th Century miniature violin with one piece back (back measurement excluding button 9.25ins - 16ins overall - in poor condition - possibly an apprentice piece)
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 301 SOLD FOR: £ 110
A Victoria black papier-mache rectangular tea caddy inlaid in mother-of-pearl and decorated in colours with flowers, fitted two lidded compartments, 6.5ins x 4.5ins x 5ins high
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 303 SOLD FOR: £ 110
An early 20th Century dark green crocodile skin rectangular toilet box, the fitted interior with plated mounted and ivorine backed fitments, 10.5ins x 7.5ins x 4ins high, and a ditto sewing set with brown leather covered for same
Guide Price: £60-80
A pair of early 20th Century black lacquered binoculars by C.P.Goerz, No. 84131, with brown leather case for same (case a.f.)
Guide Price: £50-70
A 19th Century Student's lacquered brass monocular microscope, 5.75ins overall, retailed by Cornelius Knudsen, with mahogany case for same, and a selection of buttons, various
Guide Price: £30-40
Lot 306 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Five Pelham puppets - "Big Ears", "School Boy", "Sailor" and two of "Noddy", with four boxes for same
Guide Price: £80-120
A Czech three quarters size cello with one piece back (back measurement excluding button 25.5ins - 41ins overall), with canvas case and bow for same
Guide Price: £150-200
An old mandolin of Neopolitan design by Busch Mittenwald, inlaid to front with tortoise-shell and with alternating veneers to back, 23ins overall, and case for same
Guide Price: £50-70
An early 20th Century Neopolitan mandolin by Louis G. Fenga, Catania, inlaid to front with tortoise-shell, 23ins overall, with plectrum, original case and a modern hard case for same
Guide Price: £60-80
A 19th Century German full size violin with one piece back (back measurement excluding button 14ins), with bow and case for same
Guide Price: £300-350
A Czech "Stradivarius" pattern full size violin with one piece back (back measurement excluding button 14ins), with bow and case for same
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 526 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A late Victorian copper and brass mounted bow-fronted Port lamp by Seahorse, No. 76127, 15ins wide x 26ins high
Guide Price: £150-200
A polished brass circular porthole cover inset with mottled blue glass, 18ins diameter
Guide Price: £60-80
A late 19th Century American mahogany and brass mounted rectangular plate camera by Ansco Company, Binghampton, New York, 29ins overall, with lens and a variety of plates and accessories for same
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 552 SOLD FOR: £ 36
A set of brass balance scales of 19th Century design modelled with fish, 27ins high, and six weights for same
Guide Price: £40-60
Lot 559 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A pair of spelter "Mali" horses on black slate rectangular plinths, 18ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
An early 20th Century officer's dress sword by Wilkinson, with 32.5ins engraved steel blade, the chromed metal hilt with wirebound shagreen grip, and with chromed metal scabbard for same, 40ins overall
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 568 SOLD FOR: £ 50
An early 20th Century Japanese black lacquer table cabinet decorated in gilt with birds, 11.5ins wide x 6ins deep x 14.5ins high
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 569 SOLD FOR: £ 24
A Victorian mahogany sarcophagus shaped tea caddy fitted three compartments to interior, on ball feet, 10ins x 6ins x 6.5ins high (later covers)
Guide Price: £30-50
Lot 576 SOLD FOR: £ 80
An early 20th Century lacquered and black lacquered monocular microscope by Carl Zeiss, No. 20351, 12ins high (rubbed to base), with two spare objectives and mahogany case for same
Guide Price: £80-120
A 19th Century painted wood model - British schooner, 24ins overall, in ebonised wood glazed case, 30ins x 12ins x 21ins high
Guide Price: £200-300
A 19th Century burrwood domed top cylindrical dressing table jar and cover, 4.25ins diameter x 4.5ins high, a 19th Century leather covered rectangular book pattern folding chess board, 13ins x 7ins, an inlaid wood trinket box, and a mahogany rectangular two handled tray
Guide Price: £20-30
