Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, August 03 2010
Two day Sale of Antiques, Fine Art, Ceramics,Glassware and Various Collectables
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 627 SOLD FOR: £ 780
Late 18th/early 20th Century English School - Miniature oval shoulder length portrait of an Officer in uniform, thought to be on ivory panel, 3ins x 2.5ins, contained in gilt metal frame, the back with white opaque engine turned enamel panel set with hair, seed pearls and oval medallion initialled "W.P."
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 628 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A 19th Century "Royalist" miniature portrait of Charles I in the "17th Century" style, the oval shoulder length portrait on ivory, 2.75ins x 2ins, contained in carved oak frame (damaged), and the whole contained in red velour and embroidered oval pouch
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 629 SOLD FOR: £ 130
Russell & Sons (of Southsea) - Miniature shoulder length portrait of a gentleman, on ivory, 3.25ins x 2.5ins, signed and inscribed to reverse with address - 43 Osborne Road, Southsea, contained in gilt metal rectangular inner frame and glazed and in red leather covered case with folding front
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 630 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Early 19th Century English School - Miniature oval shoulder length portrait of a young man wearing a blue coat, thought to be on ivory, 2.75ins x 2.125in, contained in original brown leather covered case
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 631 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Late 19th Century English School - Miniature oval shoulder length portrait of a gentleman with deep side burns, thought to be on ivory, 1.75in x 1.5in, contained in Victorian gilt metal oval brooch, with hair mounted to reverse, 2.25ins x 1.875in overall
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 632 SOLD FOR: £ 110
A 19th Century silhouette - Half length profile of a gentleman, 2.5ins x 2ins, and a selection of other miniature pictures, various
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 633 SOLD FOR: £ 220
French School - Miniature oval shoulder length portrait of Napoleon, 3.25ins x 2.5ins, signed Sutt, in stained wood rectangular frame
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 634 SOLD FOR: £ 820
19th Century English School - Six oval miniature paintings - Half length portraits of a family, various sizes, and an oval painted miniature print - Shoulder length portrait of a gentleman, 4ins x 3ins, all contained in gilt frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 635 SOLD FOR: £ 100
19th Century School - Miniature shoulder length portrait of a middle-aged woman wearing a bonnet, on ivory panel 3.75ins x 3ins, in gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
Continental School - Miniature oval shoulder length portrait apparently of Madame Elizabeth (Court of Louis XVI), 3.25ins x 2.5ins, indistinctly signed "Nallion"(?), in gilt metal frame and glazed
Guide Price: £120-160
Late 18th/early 19th Century English School - Miniature oval shoulder length portrait of a young woman wearing a turban, on ivory panel 2.75ins x 2.25ins, initialled "S.T.P."(?), contained in gilt metal oval frame and glazed with lock of hair contained to reverse, and associated red leather covered case for same
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 639 SOLD FOR: £ 110
Six 19th Century horn rectangular snuff boxes, three inlaid with tortoiseshell panels and three inlaid with tortoiseshell and bone panels to lids (various sizes - two with damage)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 640 SOLD FOR: £ 50
A Chinese malachite snuff bottle carved in relief with a fish, 1.5ins, and stopper for same, and four other modern snuff bottles, various
Guide Price: £50-70
An early 19th Century turned wood and curled paper circular snuff box, 2.625ins x 1.25in, and a 19th Century faux tortoise-shell rectangular snuff box, 3.75ins x 2ins x 1.25in
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 642 SOLD FOR: £ 2600
An 18th/19th Century French (Dieppe) carved ivory figure of a nude woman with long flowing hair carrying a goblet in her left and hand a string of beads in her right hand, on turned socle, 8.25ins high (unsigned)
Guide Price: £800-1200
Lot 643 SOLD FOR: £ 5000
Two fine Japanese carved ivory figures of hunters and eagles, the standing figures of the hunters with bow and quiver of arrows holding down the eagle, 6.75ins and 7ins high (Meiji period - both signed but by different artists)
Guide Price: £1500-2500
Lot 644 SOLD FOR: £ 500
A pair of late 19th/early 20th Century Chinese ivory tusks, the exterior boldly carved with dragons and cloud motifs, each 12.25ins high, on ebonised wood bases for same
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 655 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A Japanese carved ivory figure of a gentleman holding a lantern, 4.75ins high, a ditto figure of a seated fisherman, 4ins high, and one other Japanese pieced carved ivory figure of a farmer carrying a hoe, 4.75ins high
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 656 SOLD FOR: £ 90
Two Indian carved ivory figures of snake charmers, 7.75ins high, on turned ebonised bases, a carved ivory figure of an emu, 3ins high, a carved ivory figure of a bird, 6ins high (repaired at legs), a carved bone crocodile, 14ins overall, a Japanese carved ivory figure of a woman, 4.75ins high (lacking base), and three carvings of elephants (broken)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 657 SOLD FOR: £ 880
A Japanese carved ivory figure of a warrior and a mouse, 3ins high (Meiji period - red seal mark to base), a ditto carved ivory standing figure of a man with a basket of flowers, on hardwood stand, 5ins high, three other ivory figures and four carved ivory netsuke
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 658 SOLD FOR: £ 460
A Chinese ivory card case carved with figures in a landscape, 3.5ins x 2ins
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 659 SOLD FOR: £ 220
A Japanese brown lacquer and gilt wood circular flat box decorated in colours and gilt to exterior with flowers and leaves and carved in relief to interior with seated deities, 2ins diameter
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 660 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A Victorian red leather covered oval jewel box, the lid with cast metal crest of a rampant lion, the interior with removable tray and blue velour lining, 9ins x 6ins x 3.25ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 661 SOLD FOR: £ 70
A 19th Century rosewood tea caddy, 9.5ins wide x 5ins high, a Victorian walnut work box, 11ins wide x 5ins high, and a Victorian rosewood writing box, 12ins wide x 4.5ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
An early George III black japanned three division tea caddy decorated in gilt with chinoiseries, 9.5ins x 6ins x 6.75ins high
Guide Price: £175-250
Lot 663 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A 19th Century amboyna artist's box by J Newman, 24 Soho Square, the interior formerly fitted with one drawer under, 12ins x 9ins x 4ins high (lacking any paints to the interior)
Guide Price: £100-150
A 19th Century French walnut miniature commode of 18th Century design, the top and drawer fronts veneered in matched figured walnut, the top cross-banded, fitted three long drawers, 14ins wide x 8ins deep x 9.75ins high
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 665 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A Victorian burrwood domed top stationery box, 9.5ins x 4.5ins x 6.75ins high, a wicker picnic set with plated fitments and kettle, and two other tea caddies
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 666 SOLD FOR: £ 150
A Victorian brass bound coromandel writing box inscribed "To George E. Hart 1872", 17.75ins x 10.5ins x 7.5ins high
Guide Price: £175-250
Two late Georgian silk woven pictures - "Tancred" - Shepherdess and sheep, oval 12ins x 9.5ins, in gilt frame and glazed, and two figures by a well, oval 14ins x 17ins, in stripped pine frame and glazed (both with slight damage)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 668 SOLD FOR: £ 50
A 19th Century woolwork picture - Young child and dog resting by a stream, 18ins x 19.25ins, in rosewood frame and glazed
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 669 SOLD FOR: £ 70
A late Georgian silk needlework panel - Rebecca at the Well - 14ins x 19ins, in contemporary gilt moulded frame and glazed
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 670 SOLD FOR: £ 1150
An Italian Neapolitan crib figure with carved head, hands and legs, 15.25ins high
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 671 SOLD FOR: £ 280
A late 19th Century German printed card mechanical clockwork diorama modelled in the form of a monkey mother washing a child, in moulded gilt frame, 11ins x 6ins x 3.5ins deep
Guide Price: £80-120
A 19th Century wax headed doll with fixed blue eyes, cloth body with composition arms and legs, 19ins overall, in purple dress
Guide Price: £70-100
A French bisque headed doll - "Cherie 7", possibly by Alexander Lefevre & Cie of Limoges, with fixed brown eyes and jointed composition body, 22ins overall, wearing blue and white dress (neck cracked), and a German bisque headed doll - "The Dollar Princess" with fixed blue eyes and jointed composition body, 24ins overall (head cracked)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 674 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A French bisque headed doll possibly by Alexander Lefevre & Cie of Limoges, with fixed blue eyes and jointed composition body, 22ins overall, in cream dress and kid slippers (head repaired)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 675 SOLD FOR: £ 50
Two Continental bisque headed and limbed dolls with moulded and painted features and cloth bodies, 15.5ins (one leg damaged), and 12.5ins (head damaged), and one other small moulded bisque headed doll, 6ins
Guide Price: £60-80
A mid 19th Century moulded wax headed doll with fixed brown eyes, cloth body and kid arms, 14ins overall, on ebonised circular base and under glass dome, 18ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 677 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A Heubach Koppelsdorf "300/9" bisque headed doll with closing blue eyes and jointed composition body, 24ins, and a 1950s composition walking and talking bridesmaid doll, 32ins
Guide Price: £100-150
A Corgi diecast model - "Priestman Luffing Shovel" (1128), box for same, a ditto model car - "Oldsmobile Sheriff" car (237), box for same and a small selection of other model cars
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 679 SOLD FOR: £ 80
Twenty two Corgi classics diecast models of commercial vehicles (all boxed) and two sets of Lido diecast model vans (boxed)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 680 SOLD FOR: £ 80
Twenty five Corgi classics diecast models of commercial vehicles (all boxed), a Cameo diecast collection of ten commercial vehicles and two other models
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 681 SOLD FOR: £ 90
A Budgie Toys diecast model of a "Routemaster" bus, a Dinky Toys diecast model of "SRN6 Hovercraft" (290), both boxed, and a small selection of other model toys, various
Guide Price: £100-150
An Astra painted metal model of a cannon, 10ins overall, and a ditto model of an anti-tank gun, 7ins overall, both boxed (boxes damaged)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 683 SOLD FOR: £ 70
An Ikaria electric painted metal model of a tram, 13ins overall, and some track for same
Guide Price: £70-100
A Hornby 'OO' Gauge locomotive - "Mallard", No. 60022, in green British Railways livery, 7ins overall (lacking two front wheels), tender for same, two ditto tank locomotives in black British Railway liveries, a Hornby Dublo Flying Scotsman Royal Mail coach, W807, 8.5ins overall, three Hornby Dublo passenger coaches and a selection of Hornby and other rolling stock, track and accessories various (one box)
Guide Price: £150-200
A Hornby 'O' gauge clockwork "Tank goods Set No. 45" comprising tank locomotive, (No. 382011) in British Railway livery, 6.25ins overall, wagon, track and box for same and four other Hornby 'O' gauge items - wagon, "No. 1 level crossing", "No. 2 single arm signal" and points, all with boxes for same
Guide Price: £150-200
A Hornby (French made) 'O' gauge electric train set, complete with tank locomotive and tender, guard's van, refrigerated wagon, and selection of rails, contained in blue and yellow box (box generally damaged and parts missing), three other 'O' gauge clockwork locomotives, one tender, two trucks and a large selection of rails
Guide Price: £100-150
