Sideboard from Sand, a historic house in east Devon – estimate £1500-2000 at Chilcotts.
Sand, a historic house in east Devon, is being sold for the first time in over 460 years – it has been in the Huyshe family since 1560.
Chilcotts of Honiton, also Devon, is selling a variety of items from the property which have been permanent fixtures at the house, including this intriguing sideboard.
An earlier house was rebuilt in 1594 by Roland Huyshe who, it is believed, installed a grand fire surround featuring oak panels and carvings. The house was remodelled by one of his descendants in the mid-19th century; it was at this time, the family surmise, that the overmantel was dismantled and the parts used to make an impressive sideboard. It has stood at one end of the Tudor Great Hall ever since.
A unique piece, it includes finely carved oak figures wearing the finest fashions of the late 16th/early 17th centuries, some of the original wall panelling, plus a centrepiece of the Royal Stuart coat of arms.
On July 16 the estimate is £1500-2000.
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On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised was Charles Darwin’s first published work after the Origin of Species.
He called the book a “flank movement” on the enemy as it tackled the question of design in nature. Orchid flowers were not beauty for its own sake, or created for the delight of humans, but adaptations to facilitate reproduction and cross-pollination by insects.
This first edition copy, one of 2000 printed by John Murray in 1862, is inscribed From the author in a clerical hand. It comes for sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on July 13 from the family of the British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist Prof Richard G West (1926-2020) with a guide of £1500-2500.
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George IV silver-gilt mustard pot by John Bridge, London, 1825 – estimate £6000-8000 at Woolley & Wallis.
This George IV silver-gilt mustard pot by John Bridge, London, 1825, is modelled as a laughing monkey standing next to a coopered barrel. The spoon is associated by also stamped for Rundell Bridge and Rundell and for London 1824.
A similar example was sold by Bonhams in 2008 as part of a collection of novelty silver animals. This one comes for sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on July 12-13 with expectations of £6000-8000.
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Silver and enamel cigarette case made by the Adie Brothers – estimate £500-800 at Tennants.
Tennants’ sale of Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver in Leyburn on July 16 includes this Edward VIII silver and enamel cigarette case.
Made by the Adie Brothers, it is enamelled with a Bugatti 57 type coupe, realistically painted in two-tone blue and within a landscape. The gilt interior is engraved with an inscription reading To Fred from Chris, 15 September 1937.
Estimate £500-800.
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Pair of Irish cased 40-bore percussion over-under belt pistols c.1852 marked for Henry Allport of Cork – estimate £5000-7000 at Holts.
This pair of Irish cased 40-bore percussion over-under belt pistols c.1852 are marked for Henry Allport of Cork. Both retain strong traces of their original finish and are complete with a manufacturer’s walnut case with a Henry Allport parchment label, a powder flask and measure, a nipple key and turn-screw, a scissors mould and case key.
They are expected to bring £5000-7000 as part of the sporting and antique guns sale at Holts in Wolferton, Norfolk, on July 11-12.
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Example from a set of six late 17th century silkwork pictures to be offered at Rogers Jones estimated at £6000-8000.
Shown here is one example from a set of six late 17th century silkwork pictures to be offered in Rogers Jones’ Selections & Collections auction on July 16 in Cardiff.
They depict scenes from the Old Testament book of Tobit (Tobias), including ‘Tobias and the Angel’, ‘Tobias and the Fish’, ‘The Blinding of Tobias’, etc, with one additionally showing the Coat of Arms of Payer von Flaach of Schaffhausen and dated 1677, all in moulded walnut and oak frames with gilt slip.
From a private collection in Wiltshire, then by descent, Rogers Jones says they were “consigned via our Cardiff office, with Quiet Street Antiques”.
Estimate for the set is £6000-8000.
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Ash and fruitwood cheese strainer on tripod splayed legs – estimate £200-300 at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.
On July 11-12 Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter sells the collection of bygones, vernacular crafts and domestic metalwork formed by Robert Deeley. The auction is titled The Cauldron, the Spit and the Fire, after Deeley’s reference book of the same name published in 2011.
This ash and fruitwood cheese strainer on tripod splayed legs has an estimate of £200-300.
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Egyptian stone stela from the Middle Kingdom, 1991-1783BC – estimate £15,000-25,000 at Toovey’s.
This Egyptian stone stela is from the Middle Kingdom, 1991-1783BC. Standing 15½in (39cm) high, it is incised and painted with bands of hieroglyphics and pictorial registers including a jackal on a shrine flanked by a pair of sacred eyes and figures flanking a table of offerings.
The piece is accompanied by correspondence from 1965, including translation from the British Museum, detailing that the stela was for a judge by the name of Nebnetfern.
It is estimated at £15,000-25,000 at Toovey’s, Washington, West Sussex, on July 7.
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Ilford Advocate in cream finish with a Dallmeyer lens – estimate £50-70 at Richard Winterton.
Presented across 160 lots, a single-owner collection spanning a century of photography including 50 early field cameras and 300 Kodak cameras is for sale at Richard Winterton in Tamworth on July 7.
Shown here is an Ilford Advocate in cream finish with a Dallmeyer lens, estimated at £50-70. This 35mm camera was made in the UK by Kennedy Instruments, a subsidiary of Ilford. Introduced in 1949 (series 1), it was updated in 1952 (series 2) with a faster lens and flash sync. Production stopped in 1957.
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Edison electric pen – estimate £3000-5000 at 1818 Auctioneers.
Offered in 1818 Auctioneers’ Antiques Vintage and Collectables timed online sale from July 7-24, this Edison electric pen is estimated at £3000-5000.
The 5½in (14cm) long device features a nickel-plated flywheel stamped Patented Aug 15 1876 and electric motor formed by two electromagnetic coils enclosed by a black-painted and gilt-lined cast-iron frame, all over a textured shaft and oscillating steel stylus.
It was the first electric copy machine and probably the first practical application of the electric motor. Edison invented the electric pen as a means to produce copies of his correspondence and notes.
His device was quickly surpassed by the typewriter but has gained renown as the predecessor to tattoo machines. Samuel O’Reilly discovered that Edison’s oscillating pen could be used to inject ink into the skin and in 1891 he patented an add-on ink reservoir and supply tube for this use.
Soon after, Thomas Riley of London improved the Edison/O’Reilly rotary version by patenting a single coil machine constructed from a modified doorbell. However, the Edison electric pen is widely regarded as the first ‘modern’ tattooing device.
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Painting dated 1889 of terriers on a grass court by David Gourlay Steell – estimate £3000-5000 at Parker Fine Art Auctions.
Parker Fine Art Auctions of Farnham, Surrey, offers this painting dated 1889 of terriers on a grass court by David Gourlay Steell (1819-94).
Steell’s career began when he was just 13, exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, and he succeeded Landseer as official painter of animals to Queen Victoria.
The estimate on July 7 for this oil on canvas, signed and dated 1889, 18 x 22in (45.5 x 56cm), is £3000-5000.
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Hanging painted plywood sign with fibreglass clown’s head – estimate £200-300 at Cheffins.
On July 23, Cheffins will offer the second part of the Roger Austin Collection at the Vintage Sale. Comprising of more than 100 lots of vintage fairground memorabilia, it is being sold over three auctions on behalf of the family of Austin.
Based in Raunds, Northamptonshire, where he ran a car salvage business, this devoted supporter of the Fairground Heritage Trust started his large-scale collection in the 1980s.
The hanging painted plywood sign with fibreglass clown’s head shown here, 5ft 4in x 2ft 5in (1.63m x 74cm), is estimated at £200-300.
The sale will take place at Cheffins’ Machinery Sale Ground, Sutton, Ely.
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Daffodils and Iris by Reuven Rubin – estimate £15,000-20,000 at Henry Adams.
Henry Adams of Chichester, West Sussex, is offering a still-life by Reuven Rubin (1893-1974) on July 14. The Romanian-born Israeli artist moved to what was then Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1912, later becoming the first Israeli ambassador to his native Romania.
This depiction of Daffodils and Iris was exhibited at the Arthur Tooth Gallery in London in 1938 and it has since descended through the family of the local vendor. The 2ft 4in x 20½in (72 x 52cm) oil on canvas is signed in English and Hebrew, as is the case with most of Rubin’s work.
Estimate £15,000-20,000.
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Estimated at £5000-8000, Bellmans will be offering an archive of manuscripts and printed material connected to Sir Winston Churchill, including this photograph signed by him in 1954, taken by ‘Vivienne’ – Florence Vivienne Mellish.
On July 14 West Sussex auction house Bellmans will be offering a substantial archive of manuscripts and printed material connected to Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).
Among the highlights is a monochrome portrait photograph of Winston Churchill signed by him in 1954, which was taken by ‘Vivienne’ – Florence Vivienne Mellish (1889-1982) – who took portraits of five consecutive prime ministers.
The archive belonged to one of the four private secretaries to the prime minister at the time. One of them was always on duty and on call, overnight and at weekends, and had to endure Churchill’s idiosyncratic working methods and timetable.
The estimate in Wisborough Green is £5000-8000.
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