The contents of a cottage described as a place “where time has stood still” will be offered in a single-owner sale at Mellors & Kirk on February 6-7 in Nottingham.
Manthorpe House in Grantham was owned by Harold Ward, who filled it over many years with thousands of antiques and other bygones largely dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.
This 16 x 13in (41 x 33cm) oval oil portrait above was painted by the Chinese artist Spoilum (l.1785-1805) and depicts Captain George Delanoe, a 1st lieutenant and commander of HMS Repulse. According to a small inscription above the sitter’s left elbow, Delanoe lost his leg after a 32lb shot was fired from another vessel at the Nore mutiny, which took place at the Royal Navy anchorage in the Thames Estuary in May 1797. Estimate £1500-2000.
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A c.1920s pocket knife shop display case, made for Taylor’s Cutlery of Sheffield, is estimated at £450-650 at the C&T auction in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on February 12-13.
The box contains 14 types of knives with price tokens at 1/9, 2/6, 3/6. The top of the case is painted with the company’s Eye Witness logo.
Danish designer Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005) holds the distinction of having been the first woman to design for Georg Jensen.
Ditzel began creating jewellery for the company in 1954 as something she could do at home while her children slept. Her work went on to win a variety of awards and prizes.
This polished openwork navette form bangle above, in pattern 1111 and signed Georg Jensen, is guided at £1500-2000 in a jewellery sale at Chiswick Auctions on February 12 in west London.
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Metropolis – the futuristic 1925 novel by Thea von Harbou – was written with the intention of being adapted for film by Harbou’s husband, the director Fritz Lang.
Harbou collaborated with Lang on the script for the film (also titled Metropolis) and filming began before the novel was published.
This first-edition, third impression above was prepared for the press by Harbou in 1926 and includes illustrations from photographs taken on set.
It is on offer in the Forum Auctions February 7 sale in London estimated at £600-800.
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