Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, October 26 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 396 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A black and white Royal photograph - Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 6ins square, signed and dated 1955, and a Royal Wedding First Day Cover Provenance : Photograph was gift to Stanley Pearson MVO, Superintendent of Works at Buckingham Palace 1946-1975
Guide Price: £100-200
Lot 397 SOLD FOR: £ 260
A quantity of Second World War photographs of Thanet and Folkestone, some mounted on to annotated sheets (two lever arch folders and one small box)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 398 SOLD FOR: £ 70
A Cadburys Chocolate "Olympic and Titanic" teacard, 2.75ins x 1.5ins (slight wear) and nine sets of cigarette cards including John Player & Sons Gilbert and Sullivan and Uniforms of the Territorial Army, contained in two albums
Guide Price: £80-120
Twelve 1960's boxing photographs, including three signed by Joe Bugner, a ticket for Henry Cooper v. Mildenberger at Wembley Arena, 1968, and twelve other photographs of celebrities and musicians, including two signed by Bob Monkhouse and Tommy Cooper
Guide Price: £70-100
A collection of Godfrey Phillips "Aircraft", Senior Service "Beautiful Scotland", and other cigarette cards, various (two boxes)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 401 SOLD FOR: £ 540
Three albums of Player & Sons and other cigarette cards and a quantity of loose cigarette cards various (one box)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 402 SOLD FOR: £ 160
An album of early 20th Century black and white topographical postcards and greetings cards, including some relating to Kent
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 403 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Two albums containing a selection of postcards including eight World War I silk embroidered cards, twenty-six Donald McGill postcards and others
Guide Price: £120-160
An early 20th Century postcard album containing a selection of portrait postcards, greetings cards and others
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 405 SOLD FOR: £ 70
Fifty Whitbread painted metal inn signs, first series, 3ins x 2ins, two others, and a collection of Kensitas silk flowers
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 406 SOLD FOR: £ 120
An album of First World War and topographical postcards, mostly black and white (album in poor condition)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 407 SOLD FOR: £ 110
An album of stereoscopic cards relating to First World War by Realistic Travel London
Guide Price: £80-120
Three albums of First Day Covers and a lacquered brass magnifying glass, 1.75ins diameter x 1.5ins high (box for same)
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 409 SOLD FOR: £ 170
A Victorian brown leather covered photograph album containing a selection of portrait and group photographs of Hop Picking interest related to the Syracuse family from Tenterden, Kent
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 410 SOLD FOR: £ 60
Four albums containing a quantity of 1950s photographs of English and European motorcycle racing and touring across Europe, and an album containing a quantity of modern motorcycle related photographs
Guide Price: £70-100
Two albums containing a selection of postcards of Margate, and a selection of various greetings cards
Guide Price: £100-150
Eleven Pirelli calendars - two of 1984, 1986, 1992, three of 1993, two of 1994, 1995, one undated (ten boxed)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 682 SOLD FOR: £ 150
19th Century School - Miniature painting - Shoulder length portrait of a man wearing a blue coat, 2.25ins x 1.75ins overall, in gilt metal mourning brooch mount (with lock of hair to reverse - with case) and 19th Century School - Miniature painting - Shoulder length profile of a young girl, 1.75ins x 1.25ins, in gilt metal mount
Guide Price: £150-200
19th Century English School - Miniature painting - Half-length portrait of a gentleman, 3.25ins x 2.5ins, in gilt metal frame and glazed
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 684 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Continental School - Pair of miniature paintings - Shoulder-length portraits of young women, ovals 2.5ins x 2ins, in octagonal ebonised frames and glazed
Guide Price: £125-160
Lot 685 SOLD FOR: £ 90
19th Century Continental School - Miniature painting - Shoulder length profile of a girl in 18th Century dress, 3.5ins x 2.5ins, possibly on ivory, in gilt frame and glazed, and early 20th Century School - Overpainted miniature - Profile of a young woman, 2.5ins x 2ins, in brass frame and glazed
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 686 SOLD FOR: £ 40
19th Century School - Miniature portrait - Shoulder length portrait of a woman wearing a bonnet, oval 2.25ins x 1.75ins, possibly on ivory, in gilt moulded frame and glazed and a pair of French gilt metal photograph frames, 7.5ins high
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 687 SOLD FOR: £ 120
An early 19th Century tortoise-shell single tea caddy of shaped outline, ivory inlay to rim and on boxwood bun feet, 5ins x 3.5ins x 4ins high (cracked to top)
Guide Price: £100-150
A 19th Century mahogany two-division teacaddy, 12ins x 6.5ins x 6.75ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 689 SOLD FOR: £ 70
A Victorian rosewood two division teacaddy with bowl cut out to centre, 14ins x 7ins x 7ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 690 SOLD FOR: £ 400
An early 19th Century tortoise-shell single tea caddy of shaped outline and with domed lid, on ivory bun feet, 4.5ins x 3ins x 3.5ins high
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 691 SOLD FOR: £ 70
An early Victorian mahogany two division sarcophagus shaped tea caddy, with glass circular sugar bowl, on bun feet, 11.75ins x 6.25ins x 7.5ins high, and a Victorian mahogany two division rectangular stationery box, 8ins x 4.75ins x 4ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 692 SOLD FOR: £ 280
A Victorian Tunbridge Ware writing slope inlaid with view of a ruined abbey, within floral borders, 12.5ins x 10.5ins x 3.5ins high, some damage, and with two Tunbridge Ware topped glass inkwells for same
Guide Price: £150-200
An early Victorian rosewood writing slope inlaid with mother of pearl, 16ins x 11ins x 4ins high
Guide Price: £125-160
A Victorian figured walnut and brass bound writing box, 17.75ins x 10ins x 7.5ins high (some stringing lifting)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 695 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A Victorian walnut brass bound writing box, 12ins x 8.5ins x 6ins high and a teak brass bound rectangular workbox, 10.5ins x 8.75ins x 4.5ins high
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 696 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A late Victorian walnut and parquetry banded writing box, 12ins x 9ins x 5ins high (hinge loose), a plated oval kettle on stand, 10.5ins high, and a small ebonised box, 4.25ins x 1.75ins x 1.25ins high
Guide Price: £50-70
Lot 697 SOLD FOR: £ 360
A mid 19th Century Anglo-Indian satinwood writing box, the interior with later cloth covered slope, 16ins x 10ins x 6ins high
Guide Price: £150-250
Lot 698 SOLD FOR: £ 70
A 19th Century French amboyna and metal inlaid rectangular workbox with lift out interior tray, 9ins x 7ins x 5.5ins high, and a Scandinavian painted wood scoop, 13ins overall
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 699 SOLD FOR: £ 250
A 19th Century Ceylonese coromandel work box of shaped outline with fitted interior, 14.25ins x 9.5ins x 5.5ins high
Guide Price: £250-300
Lot 700 SOLD FOR: £ 280
An early 19th Century mahogany apothecary's box complete with five glass fitments (with some damage) and with drawer to base with fitted interior, 9.75ins x 4ins x 9ins high
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 701 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A carved fruitwood string box modelled in the form of a pig, 7ins high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 702 SOLD FOR: £ 60
A 19th Century mahogany and oak banded oval hat box, 12.75ins x 10.75ins x 9ins high
Guide Price: £70-100
Lot 703 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A 19th Century Scottish horn snuff mull with silvery metal mounts, 3.5ins
Guide Price: £125-160
A 19th Century faux tortoiseshell papier mache rectangular snuff box, 4ins x 1.75ins (slight damage to lid), a black papier mache and mother of pearl inlaid snuff box, 3ins x 1.75ins, and a small burr wood snuff box, 2.5ins x 1.75ins
Guide Price: £80-120
A late 18th Century Staffordshire pottery enamel cylindrical bottle holder decorated with figures by a well and haymaking scene, 2ins high (screw-on cover damaged and interior of scent bottle broken and lacking stopper), one other 18th Century enamel circular patch box, the lid decorated with a classical urn and worded "Aways the Same", 1in diameter (chipped and worn), and a modern Halcyon Days enamel patch box, the lid with conjoined "C&D" with "Prince of Wales Plumes" to centre, 1in diameter
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 706 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A late Georgian tortoise-shell and ivory mounted etui, 1.5in square x 2.5ins high
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 707 SOLD FOR: £ 150
19th Century tortoiseshell rectangular card case with bevelled edges, 4.25ins x 3ins, a ditto rectangular card case with ivory edges, 4ins x 3ins, and a small selection of Victorian calling cards
Guide Price: £60-80
Lot 708 SOLD FOR: £ 170
A 19th Century carved ivory oval profile depicting the head of a man (thought to be Prince Albert), 3.25ins x 2.5ins, unsigned, in fitted red morocco case
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 709 SOLD FOR: £ 80
A George III ivory and gold coloured metal mounted octagonal toothpick box with cartouche to lid worded "Souvenir" and inset with seed pearls and fitted internal mirror, 3.75ins x 1.5ins (crack to side and repaired hinge)
Guide Price: £100-150
A Chinese jade figure of a standing woman holding a fan, 7.75ins high, hardwood stand for same, and nine other jade figures of birds and figures, with hardwood stands, and seven boxes for same
Guide Price: £200-300
A George IV needlework "Adam and Eve" sampler worked by Martha Langley, 1827, with four line verse, birds and trees, 16ins x 12ins, in gilt moulded frame
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 714 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A George III needlework sampler by Emma Willan, aged ten years, 1812, worked with prayer, crown and flowers on a coarse linen ground, 14.5ins square, in pierced gilt frame
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 715 SOLD FOR: £ 160
A late Victorian soldier's woolwork panel - "A Soldier's Leisure Hour in India", 20.5ins x 22ins, in birdseye maple frame and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 716 SOLD FOR: £ 80
A 19th Century Berlinwork tapestry depicting birds, flowers and children, 26ins square, in rosewood frame and glazed
Guide Price: £100-150
