Stowmarket saleroom Bishop & Miller will offer a George III commemorative silver vinaigrette, engraved with a portrait of Nelson, on February 9.
Made by Matthew Linwood, Birmingham 1805, the piece is further inscribed England Expects Every Man Will Do His Duty with an interior depiction of HMS Victory.
Estimate £2000-3000.
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A silver casket presented to Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834- 1913), one of the founders of Harland & Wolff, Titanic’s shipbuilder, will be offered at Catherine Southon’s sale in Selsdon, Surrey, on February 27. The casket, which was presented in 1911– a year before Titanic set sail – is estimated at £2000-3000.
Wolff served as a Belfast harbour commissioner and founded Belfast Ropeworks in the early 1870s. Like Edward Harland, Wolff served as member of parliament for Belfast East from March 1892 to December 1910 and was awarded the Freedom of Belfast by the Belfast Corporation in 1911.
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Originating from the Machynlleth area of mid-Wales c.1780, an oak cricket table (known as a Bwrdd criced) is priced at £4650 from Tim Bowen Antiques in Carmarthenshire.
It measures 2ft 1in (65cm) high and features a figured single-plank top.
Cricket tables, most likely a variation of the word 'cracket' (the first recorded use, in 1635), probably developed because its three-legged form was comparatively steadier on uneven ground.
This oil is typical of Carel Weight’s (1908-97) later post-war work – in which alienated figures wander in and out of the picture, contrary to the normal compositional rules of landscape painting.
The signed 13 x 17in (33 x 44cm) oil on board comes from the private collection of a friend of the artist and will be offered for sale at Roseberys in West Norwood, south London, on February 12. Estimate £2000-3000.
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