Past Highlights
CHINA, THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE DOUBLE DRAGON
TYPE 1, 1882-1902, FOURTH CLASS
Sold for £19,000
Queen Mary’s Belle Epoque Brooch
In platinum with a natural pink conch pearl, flanked by 44 square and rectangular step cut diamonds, natural iridescent grey, and natural cream pearl, in the original Marzo case, with direct Royal Provenance.
Sold for £55,000
Colin Middleton, MBE RHA (Irish 1910-1983), ‘March’, oil on canvas
Signed, inscribed verso ‘March 1950, Colin Middleton, No 87’ with remnants of old label.
Sold for £23,000
Chinese Kangxi period porcelain vase
Of globe and shaft form, decorated in underglaze iron red with 3 mythical lions
Sold for £6,000
Early Monart Ware oviform glass vase, shape A
Mottled green glass with swirls of blue, white, grey and brown.
Sold for £700
37 Victorian photographs of views in Ceylon
including Great Hindu Temple, Colombo; Dalada Maligawa at Kandy, Views of Rambodde (Ramboda) Falls, Suspension Bridge at Gampola, Rolling Tea at Rambodde, each mounted on a single card and bound in a gilt tooled brown leather hard cover album, with a loose handwritten index.
Sold for £1,300
Pair of German Second World War Kriegsmarine U-Boat Binoculars
Believed to be Zeiss.
Sold for £900
Australian emu egg with silver plated mounts
Inset with 2 cricketers with a bat and stumps finial flanked by 2 palm trees.
Sold for £1,000
H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
Four handwritten and signed letters to Angela Lascelles.
Sold for £2,000
Late 19th century French gold archaeological revival bracelet
With wire scroll and bead decorated panels with box snap clasp and safety chain, control marks.
Sold for £7,500
Victorian silver fan shaped vinaigrette
With a hinged cover enclosing a gilt interior with a hinged pierced grille, by Henry William Dee, London, 1869.
Sold for £1,500
Charles I commission to Sir John Goodrick, Knight and Baronet
To charge and command a troop of one hundred and three score Horses, Cuirassiers or Dragoons in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Seventh day of May 1642, signed “Charles R”, and with his seal protected by 4 flaps.
Sold for £1,000
George Tinworth (1843-1913) For Doulton Lambeth, “Tea Time Scandal”
Stoneware group of 4 mice.
Sold for £2,600
Very large quantity of Victorian penny red postage stamps
Mostly from the Scottish Borders, 5000 approx.
Sold for £750
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali poet, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1913
Signed letter addressed to the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins.
Sold for £2,250
Rémy Martin Louis XIII Cognac Jeroboam Presentation Set
With a set of 4 glasses, in a brass bound oak case.
Sold for £7,000
William Bruce Ellis Ranken (British, 1881 – 1941), ‘The Redcoat’
A young Lance Corporal in the Royal Horse Guards, (believed to be Harry Frankland), signed with monogram, and dated 1915, oil on canvas.
Sold for £3,800
